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



Etudes Ent. 1857, p. 59, pi. 1. fig. xi ) : several specimens were 

 lately sent over by Mr. Fortune, in a collection from Japan, for- 

 warded to S. Stevens, Esq. 



17. Clad, dorsalls, Erichson ; Thomson, Cat. p. 396. 

 Syn. Lateralis, Hope. 

 Two very distinct species, both from the Philippines. 



18. P)"o/90*co27w* cr^Maiiis, Thomson, Cat. p. 419, n. sp. India. 



A doubtful species, Mr. Thomson very properly pointing out 

 in his description its close affinity to P. bidbosus of Hope. 



19. ProposcoilusThibeticus,\N estvf . ] Thomson, Cat. p. 396. Thibet. 



Prof. Westwood described this species (vid. Trans. Ent. Soc. iii, 

 N. S. p. 199) from a specimen in my own collection. Upon closer 

 investigation, both Prof. Westwood and myself are of opinion that 

 it is the var. minor of Cladognathus Buddha, Hope, (vid. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. vol. xix. p. 107,) from Northern India: the type spe- 

 cimen of which is also in my own collection, having fully developed 

 mandibles. 



20. Megaloprepes, n. g., Thomson, Cat. p. 420. 



Cyclophthalmus , Hope, Westw., Burm., Lacordaire. 



I do not see why the unfortunate genus Cyclophthalmus, a name 

 so peculiarly appropriate to the several species it represents, so 

 familiar to most Coleopterists, and employed by such well known 

 Entomologists as Messrs. Hope, Westwood, Burmeister and 

 Lacordaire, should be made to give way to the magnificent Megalo- 

 prepes of Mr. Thomson, because forsooth this gentleman has dis- 

 covered that some antiquated spider had been previously (perhaps 

 in the last century) christened with the same name : against such 

 doctrine I must protest, as being fraught with great inconvenience ; 

 for although, as a rule, such a double employment of a generic 

 name is, if possible, to be avoided, yet when not occurring ab- 

 solutely in the same order, I do not see any inconvenience 

 likely to arise therefrom ; on the contrary, as in the present 

 case, the remedy may be considered worse than the evil. 

 For the second section of Cyclophthalmus, of the which C. 

 platycephalus, Westw., is the type, Mr. Thomson proposes the 

 name of Cyclorasis, and for the first section of the genus 

 Dorcus, consisting of D. Nepalensis, Hope, M'Leayii, Hope, 



