2S OEIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY.
tlie peculiar character of tlie front of tlie licad, and the structiu'e of tlie mandibles taken from
tlie male of E. Mac Leayamis; tliese characters being of importance in determining the relations
of the gronp.
No. 3 represents the mandible seen fi-om above^ and 3* as seen along its inner margin to show the
molar plate at the base^ wHch is oral -nith elevated miu'gins, and with a raised transverse bar or
carina. No. 8t represents the front part of the head seen sideways ; a being the inflexed front of the
clypeus, b the swollen obliqne lateral margin^ c its lateral angle, and d the upper lip. 3J represents
the same pai't seen from the front, lettered as in the preceding figure.
FIGURE i.
DYNASTES HARDWICKII, HOPE, in Zool. Misc. (1831) p. 22.
Dyniistes niger nitidus, capite mai'is coinu longo erecto recurvo, pronoto maris cornubus 4 robustis antice
porrectis (scil. 2 ad ángulos anticos alterisque duobus disci postice positis) elytris fulvo-castí\neis \-itta sutiu-ali tenui
nigra, tibiis anticis maris extus 3-dentatis.
Dj-nastes black and glossy, the head of the male with a long erect recurved horn, the pronot\im in the same sex
with foiu- strong horns bent forwards, namely two at the anterior angles, and two on the disc beyond the middle ;
tlie elytra are fulvous-chestnut colom'ed, with a slender sutm-al black streak, and the fore tibioe of the males ai-e
armed on tlie outside beyond the middle with three strong teeth.
Length of the male, about 2 inches.
Inhabits Nepaul (Gen Hardwicke). In the Collections of the British Museum, Eutomological Society, the
Rev, F. W. Hope,
Figure 4 a represents one of the mandibles, 4 b one of the maxiUoe, and 4 c the lower lip of this
species ; from which, upon a comparison of them with the dissections of Dj-nastidee, engraved from my
drawings in the first pai't of the Eev. F. TT. Hope's " Coleopterist's jNIanual," it wiU be seen that it
approaches nearest to Sti-ategus Alceus ; it is still, however, nearer to Dicastes Endymion in this respect.
A figure of the species has lately been published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,
n, s. No. 54, by Captain Boys.