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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 COLEOPTERA. 



By Arthur M. Lea. 



Part II. 



D Y T I S C I D ^. 



LaNCESTES ocularis, 11. sp. 



Subconvex, highly polished. Piceous-black; head with a testa- 

 ceous blotch in its middle; anterior half of prothorax testaceous, 

 except behind the emargination and a narrow indistinct stroke at 

 the middle; each elytron with eight narrow longitudinal stripes — 

 1st and 2nd joined and barbed at apex, open behind, 3rd and 4th 

 joined at base and apex, 5th l)ifurcate at its base, joined to the 

 6 th at about a third from the apex, between the 5th stripe and 

 the base is an irregular circle with an extension behind, 7 th and 

 8th soldered at the shoulders — near apex connected with 4th; 

 legs, antennas and palpi reddish, the posterior legs tinged with 

 piceous. Above very densely and extremely minutely punctate ; 

 head with two transverse punctures on each side; prothorax with 

 a row of feeble closely connected punctures near apex, with some 

 almost obsolete on each side near base; elytra with two very 

 feeble rows ; sterna indistinctly wrinkled ; intermediate femora 

 with a row of feeble punctures. 



Head very smooth ; without impressions at sides of eyes ; 

 antennae thin, passing intermediate coxte. Prothorax widely 

 transverse, narrower in front than behind ; widely emarginate at 

 apex, base feebly bisinuate ; angles acute, the posterior but little 

 produced; prosternal keel narrow, lanceolate, basal half margined, 

 received into a narrow mesosternal excavation. Elytra wider 

 than prothorax, widest about the middle; not quite covering 

 abdomen. Tibias with seta? and spurs at their apices, spurs to 



