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capite longiore angustiore, antennis haud villosis, articulo 1° cras- 
siore, elytris magis parallelis, apice simul acuminatis, sat fortiter 
punctato-substriatis distincta. — Zanzibar. 
Le Secrétaire analyse une note en langue anglaise qui vient de 
nous être adressée par notre collègue M. Sharp. C’est une liste des 
espèces de Lucanicles propres à la Nouvelle-Zélande, rectifiant les 
erreurs où, d’après lui, sont tombés plusieurs auteurs quant à la 
place de ces genres et espèces. 
Appelée à décider si cette note sera publiée sous la forme d’une 
traduction française ou textuellement en anglais, l’Assemblée se 
prononce pour la publication en langue anglaise. 
NOTES ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF NEW ZEALAND LUCANIDÆ. 
‘ I understand that in continuation of the valuable sériés of Cata- 
logues of Coleoptera published by tliis Society, one of the members 
lias undertaken the Lucanidœ, and in order to facilitate his task, 
I give herewith the results of some researches into the nomencla- 
ture of the New Zealand species of the family about which a good 
deal of confusion prevails. The importance of correct nomenclature 
is well shown by the history of a slight error occurring in the list 
of New Zealand Coleoptera published by professor Hutton, some 
years ago ; in this list, an Oxyomus, that sliould hâve been the 
first species of the family Scarabœiclœ, was, by a slight error, 
made to appear as the last of the Lucanidœ, and lias since been 
treated by writers on New Zealand entomologv as a real Lucanid, 
so that Wallace in his valuable work on the Geographical Distri- 
bution of Animais (vol. I, p. 457), has been misled into stating 
that in New Zealand « the Lucanidœ are represented by two 
peculiar généra Denclroblax and Oxyomus ». It is scarcely neces- 
sary to add that Oxyomus is (or was ; for it is, like nearly ail gene- 
ric names, a terni of constantly shifting value) a very widely 
distributed genusoutside ofNew Zealand, but does not really occur 
in New Zealand at ail, and is moreover not a genus of Lucanidœ 
at ail. 
In the Manual of New Zealand Coleoptera recently issued by the 
Colonial Muséum and Geological Survey Department of New Zea- 
land, twelve species of Lucanidœ are enumerated, and five of these 
are assigned to the genus » Dorcus Mac Leav », three of these sup- 
posed species of Dorcus being describe 1 as new. I think it pro- 
bable, however, that these species of Dorcus may belong to the 
genus Lis sot es. 
Broun appears to hâve been unacquainted with the work done in 
