454 Major F. J. Sidney Parry on Lucanus Lama. 



imagined it to be the J either of 0. carinatus, Linn., or of O. helli- 

 cosiis, Laporte, I am inclined to think, with the late Rev. F.Hope 

 (vid. his Cat. p. 1 7), that it represents O. Baladeva, Hope, a not 

 very uncommon species from India, but whether the ^ or ? is 

 problematical ; the figure indicating by the very narrow fore tibiae 

 the $, whereas the short mandibles would lead to the suppo- 

 sition that a $ was intended. I may here mention, that 0. Bala- 

 deva is the type of a section of Odontolabis, of which one of 

 the principal characters is the following, '' Caput pone oculos in 

 maribus inerme." 



It is very remarkable that Dr. Burmeister should have united 

 so many distinct species with Olivier's insect, insomuch as he 

 remarks to the following effect (vid. Handbuch, p. 354), " I can 

 answer for the exactitude of the synonymy, having seen the ori- 

 ginal types of the several species in the collection of the British 

 Museum;" he cannot, I think, here allude to Olivier's type, as it 

 certainly is not in that collection. 



L. Lama, Burm. Handbuch der Ent. Ind. Or. 



Syn. ^ lunifer, Hope id. 



Syn. S villosiis, Hope id. 



Syn. $ Cantori, Hope id. 



Syn. ^ Mearesii, Hope id. 



Syn. ? nigripes, Hope id. 



? Lama, Oliv. 



Sp. 1. L. Lama, Oliv. = Odontolabis Baladeva, Hope, ? 

 Sp. 2. L. $ lunifer, Flope, Royle's Flora Himal., and Cat. 



^ rugifrons* 

 Sp. 3. Ij. $ villosus, Hope, Zool. Misc. p. 22 ; Cat. p. 9. 

 Sp. 4. L. $ Cantori, Hope, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. 12, p. QQ^, 



and Cat. 

 Sp. 5. L. $ Mearesii, Hope, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. 12, p. 364, 



and Cat. 

 $ nigripes, Hope, Cat. p. 10. 



* The insect Mr. Hope describes as rtigifrons (vide Cat. p. 24) is not the 

 rugifrons he refers to as the J of lunifer. The former inhabits Java, and is the 

 2 of Dorcus Bucephalus, Burm. 



Dorcus {Platyprosopus) $ Bucephalus, ^VLXva. 

 Briareus, Hope, Cat. 

 ? rugifrons, Hope, Cat. p. 24. 



