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XLI. Descriptions of some Nondescript Insects from Assam, chiefly collected hy 

 William Griffith, Esq., F.L.S., Assistant- Surgeon in the Madras Medical 

 Service, and attached to the late Scientific Mission to Assam. By the Rev. 

 Frederick William Hope, M.A., F.R.S. 8f L.S. 



Read November 3rd, 1840. 



JDURING the last session, I submitted to tlie Linnean Society drawings and 

 descriptions of some new insects collected in Assam, and which have since 

 been published in the Transactions. 



In consequence of my absence from London when the plates were engraved, 

 the most remarkable form of the whole collection was omitted, partly as it 

 did not well accord with the first plate, consisting entirely of Longicorn beetles, 

 and partly as the figures would have appeared too crowded for the size of a 

 quarto plate. At the suggestion of Mr. R. H. Solly, I have now figured 

 that unique form under the name of Cheirotonus, and I have also given a 

 few others ; and in the course of the present paper it is my intention to 

 describe the remaining nondescript species in Mr. Griffith's collection, and 

 to add such remarks as may tend to throw additional light upon the ento- 

 mology of a country almost yet untouched, but one which, from the magni- 

 tude and splendour of the insects already known, will be found to vie with, if 

 not surpass, any others in the Old or even in the New World. 



LucANus. Linnceus S^ Fahricius. 



LucANiD^. Leach. 



Lucanoidea*. Hope. 



Spec. 1 . LuCANUS FORSTERI. 



Long, (mandibulis inclusis) unc. 2, lin. 11. Lat. elytr. lin. 10. 



* In the Coleopterist's Manual the terms Cicindeloidea and Caraboidea are adopted to include the 

 different families belonging to each of those groups ; and the term Lucanoidea will comprise the Lam- 

 pride, SyndesidcB, Passalida, &c., in short, all the natural families into which Lucanus of Linnaeus has 

 hitherto been subdivided. 



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