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COLEOPTERA. 
interstice, from Rlolus in its keeled thorax, and from Limnius in its 
narrow scutellum. Elmis parallelipipedus^ angiistatus, and pygmceus, 
MiilL 
Dupopliilus [? DyptopMlus]^ g. n., iid. I. c. p. 119. Connects the pre- 
ceding with Limnius, having the scutellum as wide as long. D. brevis, 
sp. n., iid. I. c. p. 120, Rhone. 
Elmis suhcarinatus, sp. n., Sharp, An. Soc. Esp. i. p. 263, Reinosa. 
Limnius gigas, p. 263, perezi, p. 264, Escorial, hrevis, ibid., Argel, Sinai, 
id. I. c. spp. nn. 
HETEEOCERIDiE. 
Mulsant, I.e. pp. 117-234, pi. ii., under the title ' Tribu des Spini- 
pedes,' revises the French species. 
Heterocerus murinus, Kies., has 10 joints to the antennae, and a small 
oval club ; II. hispidulus, marmota, and minutus, Kies., and curtulus, 
Fairm., have also 10 joints, with a 6-jointed club, and the abdominal 
plates quite closed. H. maritimus, Guer., pruinosus, intermedius, crinitus, 
Sind senescens (punctatus, C. Bris.), Kies., and curtus, Ros., have 11-jointed 
antennae, and the plates closed. All these occur in France. All the other 
species have 11 joints, and the plates not closed on the inner side. C. 
Brisout, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. pp. cvii. & cviii. 
Heterocerus alhipennis, Fairmaire, R. Z. (3) i. p. 336, Boghari ; H. 
pictus, Mulsant & Rey, Ann. Soc. L. Lyon (n. s.), xix. (1872), p. 433, 
Sicily : spp. nn. 
LuCANIDJi]. 
Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyon (4) iii. (1870), pp. 481-522, pi. iii., 
revises the French species of the ' Tribu des Pectinicornes.' Lucanus 
ponthrianti, Ceruchus tarandus, and ^salus scarahceoides are figured, with 
various details of other species. 
Dorcus punctatus, Pontopp., = parallelipipedus, L., $ ; Von Harold, 
C. H. xi. p. 107. 
Lissotes ; general observations and table of species, p. 340 : Nigidius 
bubalus, Swed., (dubious) synonymic arrangement, p. 342, table of species, 
p. 343 ; Figulus subkevis, Palis., synonymy ; F. trilobus, Westw., is a 
Nigidius. F. J. S. Parry, Tr. E. Soc. 1873. 
Nicagus, Lee, cannot be separated from the Lucanidce ; its characters 
are pointed out, and N. obscurus, Lee, figured in detail : H. Deyrolle 
& F. J. S. Parry, I. c. pp. 344 & 345, pi. v. fig. 8, a, b. 
(The late) F. Stoliczka, in ' A contribution towards a Monograph of 
the Indian Passalidae,' J. A. S. B. (n. s.) xlii. pt. 2, pp. 149-162 (ab- 
stracted, P. A. S. B. 1873, pp. 112-118, with account of discussion on 
Kaup's classification, to which Phear and Blanford object, I. c), follows 
Kaup " without prejudice." In India, species of this group only occur 
where there is a Malayan fauna, none being known from the Himalayas 
west of Nepal, or from any part of Central India, or the Punjaub. 23 
species are enumerated. 
Chiasognathus pubescens, sp. n., C. 0. Waterhouse, Ent. M. M. x. p. 110, 
Venezuela. 
