244 Mr. J. SRW estwood’s description, §c. 
or leaden-blue colour, which in certain points of view has 
a copper-coloured gloss. This pulverescence is most easily 
abraded at the slightest touch, showing the black colour 
of the elytra beneath. 
The legs are rather slender ; the anterior tibiz: with two 
terminal spines on the outer edge, the preceding portion 
of the edge being slightly serrated. 
Beneath black and glossy, the head and thoracic por- 
tions slightly, the abdominal segments more strongly, 
punctured. 
Lissotes obtusatus, Westw. 
Major F. J. S. Parry has recently received from M. 
Ee Deyrolle several species of a Lissotes from Tas- 
mania as a new species, but which I cannot distinguish 
from the well known and common JL. obtusatus, on a very 
careful comparison with the type specimens of the latter. 
In one of the males sent the mandibles are nearly identical ; 
the notch near the tip of the inner margin is however 
rather wider, and the tubercle at the base of the broad 
inner tooth is rather more elevated. The two impressions 
on the disc before the middle of the pronotum are a little 
deeper, and the elytra are slightly elevated round the 
seutellum. The punctation throughout is also somewhat 
stronger. In another male, also sent by M. H. Deyrolle, 
the apical tooth of the mandibles is more distinct, in con- 
sequence of the broad tooth having its anterior angle 
obtusely truncate. The impressions on the pronotum are 
wanting, and the elytra round the scutellum are not 
elevated. 
I can only regard these modifications as individual 
variations, and not as indicating distinct species. 
Description of Plate LX. 
. 1, Allochotes bicolor. 
Fig 
Fig. 2. Scortizus pulverosus. 
