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Description of a New Genus and Species of Lucanoid Coleoptera 

 from the interior (f Tasmania : by Major F. J. Sidney Parry, 

 F.L.S. 



HoPLOGONUs*, Gen. no v. 



Habitu fere generis Lissotes, at caput depressuni, nee con- 

 vexuni ; niandibulte porrectce, nee falcatte ; in utroque sexu 

 })rothorace angulis posticis elytrisfj^ue angulis liumeraliljus sjjino 

 sub-erecto arniatis ; oculi minuti. 



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Hoploijonus Simsoni, n. .sp. ^ , ^ (var. max). 

 Plate I. tigs. 1, 2, 3. 



H. niger, nitidus, mandibulis elongatis, robustis, intus edent- 

 atis, capite prothoraceque fere longitudine, in medio dente forti 

 armatis ; capite transverso, sub- depresso, antice porrecto, linea 

 niarginali sinuata, augulis ante oculos acutis, lateribus in medio 

 obtuse productis ; clypeo jjarvo, conico ; clava antennarum ut 

 in gen. Lissotes ; oculi vix cantho incisi ; pronoto capite 

 elytrisque latiori, sub-convexo, prope angulis anticis profunde 

 foveato, medio leviter canaliculato, angulis anticis productis, 

 rotundatis, posticis fortiter obliquis, spino minuto, suberccto 

 armatis, elytris brevibus, subconvexis, late costatis, augulis 

 Immeralibus spino acuto, suberecto instructis ; scutello parvo ; 

 tibiis anticis extus 3- vel 4- dentatis, quatuor posticis in utroque 

 sexu spino acuto armatis. 



Long, mandibulie 4 lin., capitis 1|- lin., prothoracis 2|- lin., 

 elytrorum 5 lin. 



Hab. Tasmania. CJoll. Parry & Fry. 



^ with the body broader, the prothorax narrower, its posterior 

 angles less o1)li({ue, the suberect spine considerably more pro- 

 minent, with but a faint indication of a median line, and the 

 fovese near the anterior angles shallower. The head is small, 

 quadrate, slightly inflated at the sides. The mandibles short, 

 slightly curved towards the apex, internally edentate, emarginate 

 at the base, with a small shining tubercular process in the centre. 

 The elytra exhibit no trace of the smooth elevated ridges 



* ' ottKov anna cl yo}Vo% aiigulus. 



