Lucanide. 365 
Dr. Howitt kindly sent me a specimen of the male of 
this species, of which sex he had seen five specimens; the 
individual forwarded to me not bemg much more than 
half the size of one of his examples. They are from 
Maria island, and the east coast of Tasmania. 
The female is unknown. 
Lissores LAUNCESTONI, n. sp. 
(Plate IX. fig. 1.) 
Gracilis, subdepressus, niger punctatissimus, mandi- 
bulis maris curvatis, apice subporrectis, intus ultra medium 
dente subovato composito, armatis ; prothorace transverso 
caput versus paullo angustiori. 
Long. corp. lin. 6; mand. lin. 1. 
Hab.—Launceston, Tasmania; mense Martis. D. 
Howitt. In Mus. Oxonie. 
I am indebted to Dr. Howitt for a specimen of the male 
of this species, which, as he remarks, is “ much lke 
DL. obtusatus, but narrower in form, with the mandibles 
more long and slender. I have never seen a specimen 
of this form from the south of Tasmania; the female is 
equally elongate with the males.” It differs, moreover, 
in its depressed elytra, and in the much more strongly 
punctured upper surface of the body, especially of the 
prothorax. 
The head is narrower than the prothorax, with the 
front part semicircularly sloping down to the labrum, 
which is minute and conical, with a small slightly raised 
tubercle on each side, near the base of the mandibles ; 
the lateral margins of the head, in front of the eyes, are 
obliquely truncate and thin, the hind part forming an 
obtuse canthus of each eye. The mandibles are about 
the same length as the head, each with a small triangular 
tooth near the base of the inner margin, the apex por- 
rected and obtuse, with a somewhat oval tooth, or dilata- 
tion, on the inner edge of the mandible, beyond the 
middle, on which are the obtuse-rudiments of tubercles. 
The prothorax is transversely subquadrate, the lateral 
margins slightly inclining towards the head, the centre 
of the disc being slightly impressed with a longitudinal 
TRANS, ENT. soc. 1871.—rartT I. (auaustT.) oc 
