COLEOPTERJ- 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
, T ., and hairy within: head finall: thorax large and convex. 
Braffy, jaws exferted, recurved, and ha y 
1 • Me rranifp narvo, thorace magno convex®. 
Lucanus iE-NEUS. Tran/. Linn. Sot. VI. p. 
c n t i ^ 9 n 2 Eleut. 1. p • 2. ft* 2 . 
Lethrus ^neus. Fair. Ent. Syjl. T.l. p-2- n. • VJ 
Although hitherto efteemed a rarity 
that country, amounting to not lefs than fifty fpecimens, 
mltance, a paicei o o . „ ,. A r^i-Wrtpnt at Mew South Wales. The fpecies has 
all which were collefted in the environs of the Englifh fettlement at on the contrary 
thus become pretty common now in England. When Fabricms defenbed it, this mfeft contrary 
was extremely rare, the only fpedmens of it known in this country, or perhaps in Europe being at 
that time in the Bankfian cabinet; for the fpecies was originally difeovered in Norfolk ifland, in the Pacific 
Ocean, by Sir Jofeph Banks. Fabricius did not certainly examine this infed with his accuftomed accu¬ 
racy and critical diferimination, or he would not have affigned it to his new genus Lethrus, (the firft in 
his clafs Eleuterata) fince it is raoft affuredly a Lucanus of the Fabrician, as well as the Linnaean Syflem. 
The figures of this infedt in the annexed plate exhibit two very firiking varieties of this fpecies, one 
being of a fine golden colour, and the other a dark green. Of the latter kind fome other fpecimens have 
occurred to our obfervation in which the colours varied from a dark green to blue, or at leaf! blueilh. 
The fpecimens in the cabinet of Mr. Francillon are from Norfolk Ifland. 
LUCANUS PARVUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Brown: jaws exferted, and toothed on theoutfide: head fmall: thorax large and canaliculated : wing- 
cafes tlriated. 
Lucanus Parws. biunncus, mandihuhs exfertis extus dentatus, capite parvo, thorace magno, caria^ 
liculato, elytris flriatis. 
„ en „ s LUCan , U - S u bUt 01 a dimimuive C ' z “ compared with the reft of the infetls in the fan 
tafea, which he^eceived from New' H«Zf “ ^ ^ Fra0Cm “ to P 0 ®®** ° f this CU ™ 
