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



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rather dense punctures of moderate size, but becoming 

 larger and denser towards sides. Labrum rather feeblv 

 produced in middle. Alandibles short and stout, each 

 near base with a subconical projection, then notched, and 

 then feebly undulated or cuspidate to near apex, where 

 there is a feeble notch. Prothorax decidedly wider than 

 head, but very little, or not at all, wider than elytra; sides 

 finely serrated, and towards base feebly incurved, apex 

 very feebly rounded across middle: sides and base with 

 dense and coarse punctures, elsewhere fairlv dense but 

 smaller, and smallest about apex. Elytra parallel-sided 

 for most of their length; shoulders slightly projecting; 

 with dense and rather coarse punctures: stri'ation and in- 

 terstices rather ill-defined. Length, 10 — 11 (female 9 



10 J/2) mm. 



Female differs from the male in having the head 

 much smaller, with coarser and somewhat denser punc- 

 tures, mandibles of the usual female type, the prothorax 

 le«s transverse, with sides more rounded, and punctures 

 somewhat coarser. 



Hab. — Tasmania (Aug. Simson), Hobart (A. M. Lea). 



A very small species, in size and, except for the man- 

 dibles, general appearance, strongly resembling forcipula, 

 but the mandibles very different' from those of that 

 species, or in fact of any other species of the genus, being 

 unusually short and solid. 



The clothing appears to be easily abraded, but one 

 specimen in perfect condition has the' elytra clothed with 

 rows of long hairs, with short stout sete, almost scales 

 (as on cornutus) on the interstices, and similar stout set^ 

 are on the sides of its prothorax. But most of the speci- 

 mens have the long hairs and stout setae entirely abraded, 

 or greatly reduced in numbers, with the marginal setse 

 also reduced in numbers. An occasional specimen has 

 mostof the derm more or less noticeably diluted with red. 

 The inner edge of each mandible between a rather deep 

 notch in front of the sub-basal projection and a very 

 feeble subapical notch, is sometimes almost straight, but 

 it usually has two or three feeble cusps. There is usuallv 

 a feeble tubercle on each mandible about its middle, and 

 fairly close to the inner face, but it is not visible from the 

 sides. There are usually five, but sometimes onlv four, 

 strong teeth on the front tibiae. 



