BY ARTHUR M. LEA. F.E.S. 



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The two males before me are without locaHty labels, 

 and I thought they were possibly from the West Coast, 

 but Dr. Rodway on being applied to wrote of them: — 

 " I got your note re Lissotes, and am sorry that I cannot 

 be sure as to the locality. It was obtained near Hobart, 

 and I think probably from a ti-tree swamp bevond King- 

 ston, where I often used to go for beetles. Thev are not 

 from the West Coast; I am sure of that." 



LISSOTES RODWAYI, n. sp. (Figs. 54, 55). 



]\Iale, Black, some parts dark reddish brown; mode-- 

 rately shining; sides fringed with rather long setae, and a. 

 few scattered about on the posterior slope of the elytra. 



Head large and moderately wide, rather strongly con-- 

 vex; sides moderately projecting both in front of and. 

 behind eyes, with a slight swelling near each side in 

 front, but scarcely tuberculate; towards sides with dense,, 

 large, round punctures, smaller near base, and smaller 

 and sparser and somewhat irregularly distributed else- 

 where. Labrum feebly incurved to middle of apex, with 

 a slight projection over the middle. ^landibles not very 

 stout, except at base, where each is strongly produced at 

 the side of the labrum, apex rather strongly notched, 

 upper surface near apex with a strong projection directed 

 upwards and inwards. Prothorax not much wider than 

 head, and very little, if at all, wider than widest part of 

 elytra; sides very feebly or not at all serrated, apical two- 

 thirds almost parallel, thence oblique to base, with the 

 hind angles widely rounded; apex gently rounded across, 

 middle, with a comparatively narrow and distinct median 

 line; punctures for a narrow space dense and rather 

 coarse along sides and base, about the same size but: 

 sparser along middle; elsewhere with rather small but 

 fairlv dense punctures. Elytra not quite parallel-sided,, 

 shoulders rounded, with moderately dense but rather- 

 small punctures, becoming denser at the sides and pos- 

 teriorly; striation and interstices rather ill-defined. 

 Length, 161^ — 17 (female 15) mm. 



Female dififers from the male in having the head, 

 much smaller, less convex, with denser and mostly 

 coarser punctures, the sides scarcely projecting either in 

 front of or behind eves; mandible of the usual female^ 



