716 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, xiv., 



type of that species as a male, despite the feminine appearance 

 of the mandibles: but it was described and figured as having six 

 impressed striae on each elytron; on the present species there are 

 no striae, their places being taken by smooth, shining lines not 

 interrupting the general convexity; there are also many other 

 differences in the head, antennae, etc. On account of its eyes, 

 the species should perhaps liave been referred to Lissapterus 

 {how lit anus of that genus has sometimes been referred to Lissofes), 

 but the head and mandibles are very different from those of the 

 species at present referred to that genus. The mandibles of the 

 type are touching at their tips, and enclose a top-shaped space; 

 each has an obtuse swelling about the middle of the upper 

 surface, and is obtusely bicuspidate at the apex. 



SCARAB^ID^. 



LiPARETRUS MA.TORINUS, n.Sp. 



Black, shining; elytra and appendages reddish-castaneous. 

 Front of head, pronotum (including disc), and elytra at base and 

 near suture, with rather long, erect, and rather sparse whitish 

 hair; undersurface, hind-parts, and legs with dense clothing. 



Head wntli crowded (but not confluent) and not very large 

 punctures, becoming larger and sparser on clypeus, sides of the 

 latter conspicuously narrowed and sinuous to apex, which is 

 evenly and moderately incurved to middle. Antennae nine- 

 jointed. Prothorax with strongly rounded sides, hind angles 

 rounded off, front ones produced and acute, median line vague 

 and traceable only towards base; punctures of somewhat uneven 

 size, but mostly rather large, and not very crowded. Elytra 

 with punctures moderately large, becoming smaller and more 

 crowded posteriorly, geminate striae feebly defined. Hind-parts 

 with rather dense punctures, smaller and denser on propygidium 

 than on pygidium. Front tibicB strongly and obtusely tridentate; 

 hind tarsi with basal joint distinctly shorter than second. 

 Length, 9 mm. • 



Hah. — Queensland (unique). 



The erect pilosity is continued on to the elytra from the pro- 

 notum, but is not very don.se there; regarding the species, how- 



