Material collected during a biodiversity expedition in some protected areas of Ecuador, located in the provinces of Coto-paxi, Pichincha and Napo, resulted in ten new species and three first records. The new taxa are: Cylloepus bartolozzii sp.nov., Cylloepus cesari sp. nov., Cylloepus fabianorum sp. nov., Cylloepus francescae sp. nov., Cylloepus mazzai sp. nov.,Cylloepus terzanii sp. nov., Cylloepus whitmanae sp. nov., Macrelmis elicioi sp. nov., Pharceonus cianferonii sp. nov.and Stenhelmoides onorei sp. nov. The three records are: Cylloepus vicinus Hinton, 1940, Hexacylloepus nirgua Hinton,1973, Phanocerus congener Grouvelle, 1898. Habitus photographs and illustrations of aedeagi for all the new taxa andother useful characters for some of them, a key to the graniger species-group of Macrelmis, and a checklist of the Ecuadorian species with their general and local distributions are hereby included.

Two Elminae, Macrelmis germaini (Grouvelle, 1896) and Cylloepus reitteri Grouvelle, 1889 from Grouvelle's Collection in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris are reviewed, and their lectotypes designated. Habitus photographs and illustrations of aedeagi for both species are also included.

The Australian species of the genus Figulus MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae: Figulini) are reviewed. Four new synonymies are established: F. howei De Lisle, 1967 and F. tambourinensis Mjöberg, 1916 are junior synonyms of F. nitens Waterhouse, 1874 (new synonymy); F. laevithorax Bomans is a junior synonym of F. regularis Westwood, 1834 (new synonymy); F. mento Albers, 1883 and F. mento foveatus Kriesche, 1922 are junior synonyms of F. sulcicollis Hope in Westwood, 1845 (new synonymy). The number of Figulus species known from Australia thus decreases to seven, four of which are endemic to Australia and one to Christmas Island. Lectotypes are designated for F. australicus Thomson, 1862, F. clivinoides Thomson, 1862, F. nitens Waterhouse, 1874, F. rossi Gahan, 1900, and F. tambourinensis Mjöberg, 1916. All the seven valid species are redescribed and a key is given for their identification. Photographs of the habitus, the mentum and illustrations of the aedeagus for all the taxa are also included. New unpublished data on the host plants and habitats for some of the Australian species are included.

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