314 
COLBOPTEEA, 
[Adversely criticized by IjKraatz, Ent. Monatsbl, i. p. 74.] Enumer 
rates 409 species, 69 having been added, and 7 sunk, since the 2nd edn. 
in 1870. The following observations occur: — Eurytrachelus candezii, 
Parry, = eurycephalus, Burm. ; E. niponensis, Voll., == Macrodorcus 
rectus j Mots.; Nigidius forcipatus, Burm., ==lcevicollis, Westw. ; Figulus 
nigritus[^ta], Westw., = sublcevis, Pal. de Beauv. ; F, modestus, Parry, =; 
Jissicollis, Fairm. 
Lucanus cervus. Rivalry between large and small males for the pos- 
session of the female; D. H. R. von Schlechtendal, JB. Ver. Zwickau, 
1874 ; Ent. Nachr. i. p. 158. 
Lucanus lentus. Cast., = placidus. Say, which is not elaphus, F., $ , 
as Parry supposes ; Platycerus ccerulescens^ Lee., = oregonensiSy Westw. ; 
G. H. Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 137 '(c/. also E. v. Harold, 0. H. xiii. 
p. 104). 
Cladognathus quadridenSy Hope (? = antilopusy Swed.). Extreme 
varieties from Liberia ; C. A. Dohrn, S. E. Z. xxxvi. pp. 291-294. 
Cantharolethrus luxeri^ Buq., $ described from Bogota; C. O. Water- 
house, Gist. Ent. i. p. 365. Cf. also F. J. S. Parry, op. cit. ii. p. 51, who 
notes its probable identity with Pholidotus reichiiy Hope, following J. 
Thomson. 
Alcimus dilatatuSy Fairm., $ and var. minor, from the Samoa Isles, 
described by C. O. Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1875, p. 163. 
Lissotes ohtusatuSy Westw. ; on supposed var. from Tasmania, J. O. 
Westwood, Tr. E. Soc. 1875, p. 244. 
Neolamprimay g. n., R. Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. p. 997. Differs 
from Lamprima in the very long, upeurved, apically 3-dentate, and 
internally 12-dentate mandibles of its ^ [foqnded only on a sexual 
character]. Type, N. adolphinccy sp. n., id. ibid.y ,fig., Mt. Arfak, New 
Guinea. 
Psalidoremus inflexuSy sp. n., E. v. Harold, Abh. Ver. Brem. iv. p. 288, 
Hiogo ; = P. inclinatuSy Mots., undeveloped ; id. 0. H. xiii. p. 114. 
Prosopoccdus wimberleyiy sp. n., F. J. S. Parry, Tr. E. Soc. 1876, p. 161, 
no locality mentioned. 
Cantharolethrus steinheili, sp. n., id. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 51, ^ var. med., 
and p. 52, $ var. max., Columbia, Central Cordilleras. 
Scortizus pulverosus, sp. n., J. 0. Westwood, Tr. E. Soc. 1876, p. 243, 
pi. ix. fig. 2, Eastern Cordilleras. 
Aceraius incidens, sp. n., T. Kirsch, MT. Mus. Dresd. i. p. 28, Malacca. 
SCARABiBlDJ:. ^ 
The Lamellicorn Coleoptera at present known to occur in Japan 
described by C. O. Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1876, pp. 71-116, pi. iii. 
These are as follows : — Coprides, 15 spp., Aphodiides, 33, Geotrypides, 5, 
Trogides, 3, Melolonthides, 21, Rutelides, 21, Dynastides, 2, and Cetoniides, 
14 ; in all, 93 spp., including many new, and one new genus. 
55 species (4 new) of Coprophagous Lamellicorns, taken by Teuscher in 
Cantagallo, north of Rio Janeirp, are briefly discussed by E. von Harold, 
C. H. xiii. pp. 57-72. 
