452 Major F. J. Sidney Parry on Lucanidce. 



M'Leay with Ceratognalhus niger of Westwood ; it must be an 

 oversight, as the two species in question do not even belong to 

 the same genus. 



1. Nigidius cormitiis, M'Leay, N. Holl. Hor. Ent. i. 108, 



pi, 1, fig. 6 (partes oris). 

 — Westw. Ent. Mag. vol. 5, 1838, p. 264. 



2. Ceratognalhus niger, Westw. Ent. Mag, vol. 5, 1838, 



p. 264, and fig. N. Holl. 



furcatus, Castelnau, Hist, des Ins. vol. 2, 



p. 174. 

 The former species is of great rarity ; a specimen is in the 

 British Museum. 



Q5. Ceratognalhus Hclotoides ? , n. sp., Thomson, Cat. p. 434. 

 New Zealand. 



Descriptions of several new species were recently read by my 

 friend Professor Westwood to the Society. One of these species 

 (habitat N. Zealand) is from my own collection, and probably 

 may prove identical with C. Heloloides of Mr. Thomson (vid. 

 ante, pp. 430, 437), who says, in his diagnosis of the species, 

 $ ignolus — he then, notwithstanding, proceeds to describe the $ , 

 and at the end of this description again says, $ ignotus. In fact, 

 it may be truly said to be a case of ignotus altogether. 



I append Mr. Thomson's description as authority for my 

 statement. 



Ceratognalhus Heloloides, Thomson, N. Zeal. ? . 

 Long. 13 mill.; lat. 5 mill. 



5 . Elongatus, convexus, niger, vix nitidus, pilis squamuli- 

 formibus pallidis h(ic et passim ornatus, punctatus. Elytra 

 obsolete, longitudinaliter pluri-costata, costis numero indis- 

 tinctis. $ ignolus, 



? . Niger, vix nitidus, pilis squamuliformibus pallidis hAc et 

 passim ornatus. 



$. Elongatus, convexus. Caput inaequale, punctatum, subtrian- 

 gulariter depressum. Prothorax elongatus, subquadratus, 

 antice paulo angustior, ut a])ud G. Helolam; elevationi- 

 bus intricatis plurimis impunctatis instructus : punctatus. 

 Scutellum granulosum. Elytra prothorace latiora, illo quasi 

 3-longiora, punctata, obsolete longitudinaliterque costata, 

 costis numero indistinctis, apice rotundata. Corpus subtus 

 pedesque valde punctata. 



$ ignolus. 



