442 Major F. J. Sidney Parry's Remarks upon 



XXXIV. A few Remarks upon Mr. James Thomson s Cata- 

 logue of Lucanida, published in the " Annales de la 

 Societe Entomologique de France, 1862." By Major 

 F. J. Sidney Parry, F.L.S. 



[Read 1st December, 1862.] 



Having recently submitted for publication, in the Entomological 

 Society's Proceedings, descriptions of several new species of exotic 

 Lucanidce, and having subsequently received, through the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Snellen Van Vollenhofen, of the Leyden Museum, 

 that gentleman's interesting Paper upon several new and rare 

 species published in the Tijdskrift v. Entomologie and illustrated 

 by some excellent figures, 1 find therein described two, if not 

 three, of my species alluded to above, viz., Odontolahis Lacor- 

 dairei $ , and 0. Brookeana $ ; but with regard to the third species, 

 Dorcus Tragidus, V. Vollenhofen, loc. cit. pi. 7, figs. 4, 5, C, I am 

 not so positive. This species may possibly, however, prove iden- 

 tical with Cladognathus productus, Parry, described from a single 

 specimen in the rich collection of Mr. Wallace, and discovered by 

 that gentleman in Ternate. 



The names of the two first species have been courteously re- 

 tained as (Parry, MSS.), Mr. v. Vollenhofen having probably 

 been informed by Prof. Westwood that I had thus named them. 

 A duplicate publication of them in our own Transactions, accom- 

 panied by figures, may not, perhaps, prove uninteresting to many 

 of the members. 



I have also just received the " Annales de la Societe Entomo- 

 logique de France," 2ieme Trimestre, 1862, in which appears the 

 publication, by Mr. Thomson (the well-known American En- 

 tomologist), of a Catalogue of the Lucanidce belonging to his col- 

 lection, accompanied by descriptions of several new species. Upon 

 this Catalogue 1 beg to offer a few remarks. 



At the commencement of his preface, Mr. Thomson quotes the 

 several Entomologists who have published upon this family ; but 

 why the name of Mr. Wilson Saunders, whose descriptions of many 

 new and interesting species are so familiar to Entomologists, has 

 been excluded, I am at a loss to understand ; the non-mention of my 

 own name I pass by in silence. Mr. v. Vollenhofen, although a 



