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the last twenty years on the généra of Lucanidœ, and does not 
appear himself to hâve made any examination of the generic cha- 
racters of the New Zealand Lucanichv, while the description he 
gives of the genus Dorcus is « epitomized from the descriptions 
of Lucanvs and Dorcus » given by Lacordaire in the Généra of 
Coleoptera, and thus he did not recognize that the two species he 
assigns to Dorcus should be, — .indeed hâve long since been, — 
assigned to the genus Lissoles, of which he also gives a descrip- 
tion (p. 254). For similar reasons, it is probable that Broun’s two 
supposed new species assigned by hime to Ceratognathus may not 
belong to that genus, and in the following list I hâve assigned the 
Dorci to Lissoles, the Ceratognalhi to Mitophyllus. 
The list of New Zealand Lucanidœ comprises altogether twenty 
species names, but it is probable these names do not represent as 
many species ; five of them are seen due to the Manual of New 
Zealand Coleoptera, and as the author of that work had no 
knowledge of the existence of descriptions of six of the species in 
the list, it is probable that some of his names will prove to be syno- 
nyms. Broun has also re-established certain species as valid that 
had previously been recognized as synonyins, but I need not refer 
to in detail, as his error will be corrected by a reference to my list, 
Itwill be évident from the above remarksthat New Zealand is accu- 
mulating a plentiful store of doubts and difficultés with which 
to occupy the time of lier future naturalists. 
Genus Dendroblax. 
Dendroblax Earlei White, Munich Cat. N. Zealand. 
Genus Lissotes. 
Dorcus abditus Broun (an n. sp.?), Man. N. Z. N. Zealand. 
Col., p. 673. 
Dorcus Novæ Zealandiæ Hope, Mun. Cat. 
Syn. Dorcus punclulatus White, Broun. 
Dorcus planus (an n. sp.?), Man. N. Z. Col., 
p. 252. 
Dorcus reticulatus West., Mun. Cat. 
Syn. Dorcus squamidorsis Wh., Br. 
Dorcus Stewarti Broun (an n. sp.?), Man. N. 
Z. Col., p. 673. 
Lissotes capito Deyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Ins. Chatham. 
1873, p. 339, pl. Y, fig. 4, 5, cf 9 • 
Lissotes Desmaresti Deyr., Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr., 1881, p. 239. 
N. Zealand. 
