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the last twenty years on the genera of Lucanidæ, and does not 
appear himself to have made any examination of the generic cha- 
racters of the New Zealand Zucanidæ, while the description he 
gives of the genus Dorcus is » epitomized from the descriptions 
of Lucanus and Dorcus » given by Lacordaire in the Genera of 
Coleoptera, and thus he did not recognize that the two species he 
assigns to Doreus should be, — indeed have long since been, — 
assigned to the genus Zassoles, 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 Ceratognatlrus may not 
belong to that genus, and in the following list I have assigned the 
Dorei to Lissotes, the Ceratognalhi to Mitophyllus. 
The list of New Zealand Zucanidæ comprises altogether twenty 
species names, but itis 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 thé 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 synonyms, but I need not refer 
to in detail, as his error will be corrected by a reference to my list. 
It will be evident from the above remarks that New Zealand is accu- 
mulating a plentiful store of doubts and difficulties with which 
to occupy the time of her 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 punctulalus White, Broun. 
Dorcus planus (an n. sp.?), Man. N. 7. Col, — 
, LOR- 
Dorcus reticulatus West., Mun. Cat. —_ 
Syn. Dorcus squamidorsis Wh., Br. 
Dorcus Stewarti Broun (an n.sp.?), Man. N. un 
4. Col., p:673. 
Lissotes capito Deyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Ins. Chatham. 
1873, p. 339, pl. V, fig. 4, 5, C'Q. 
Lissotes Desmaresti Deyr., Ann. Soc. Ent. N. Zealand. 
Fr., 1881, p. 239. 
