364 NOTES OX THE G<BNUS OSSOTES. 



type; prothorax less transverse, sides more evenly 

 rounded and more noticeably serrated, and with some- 

 what coarser punctures, whilst on the elytra they are 

 somewhat finer. 



Hab. — Tasmania (F. A. Rodway). 



In some respects close to the description and figure 

 of crenatus, but considerably larger (this, however, may 

 be of no importance) and each mandible with three plain 

 cusps or tines at apex, front of head almost vertical in- 

 stead of concave, mentum with corners scarcely rounded 

 off (certainly not " fere semicirculare ") and apex of pro- 

 thorax not truncate (as figured and described). In some 

 respects it resembles the two preceding species, but the 

 head is not conspicuously bituberculate, and the sides are 

 not largely scooped out in front of the eyes. 



(Jn three specimens (two males and one female) the 

 prothorax is of a dark reddish brown, and both males 

 have the greater portion of the head somewhat darker 

 bur not black; these also have parts of the under surface 

 more or less feebly diluted with red. All three have parts 

 of the legs, and especially the cox^, also diluted with 

 red. There are two very strong teeth on the front tibiae, 

 and from three to five others of small or moderate size. 



A male from Zeehan in Mr. Simson's collection differs 

 from the types in l^eing entirely black, the head some- 

 what concave in front, basal projection of the mandibles 

 much less conspicuous, prothorax distinctly wider than 

 elytra, with its median depression wider and shallower, 

 and elytra with rather coarse punctures. The strong 

 teeth on its front tibiae are six on the right, following each 

 other regularly, and five on the left, with two smaller ones 

 between the third and fourth, and again between the 

 fourth and fifth. 



LISSOTES PARVUS, n. sp. (Fig. 56). 



Male, Black, somewhat shining; sides fringed with long 

 setae; elytra in addition with other clothing. 



Head wide, moderately convex, with the front slightly 

 concave; sides rounded behind eyes and slightly project- 

 ing in front of same; a feeble swelling, sometimes almost 

 a tubercle, towards each side behind the mandible; with 



