FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEw GENERA AND 
SPECIES. 
By tHE Rev. T. Biackspurn, B.A. 
[Read October, 2, 1894.] 
MVE 
CARABIDZ. 
LITHOSTROTUS (gen. nov. Lebidarum). 
Mas. Corpus pilis erectis vestitum; caput minus elongatum ; 
oculi parvi (orbitu postoculari sat dilatato fere ultra oculum 
exstanti); palporum labialium articulus ultimus fortiter 
securiformis ; mentum medium haud dentatum; antennarum 
articulus 3"° glabrer; prothoracis margo posticus fortiter 
lobatus ; elytra postice oblique subtruncata ; tarsi supra 
glabri, articulo 4° breviter emarginato ; unguiculi basin 
versus serrati ; tarsorum anticorum articuli i subtus squa- 
mulati. 
The small Lebiid for which I propose this generic name is not 
much like any other known to me, and I hardly know where to 
place it in the sub-family ; perhaps its structural characters point 
to an alliance with Diabaticus. 
L. cerulescens, sp. nov. Modice elongatus, capite quam pro- 
thorax vix angustiori; sat nitidus ; nigro-ceeruleus, antennis 
rufopiceis, tibiis rufis; supra pilis erectis minus crebre 
vestitus ; antennis sat robustis prothoracis basin vix super- 
antibus ; capite prothoraceque fortius minus crebre punctu- 
latis ; hoc leviter transverso, canaliculato, anguste marginato, 
cordato, antice subtruncato, angulis posticis acutis denti- 
formibus ; elytris subovatis minus convexis, fortiter striatis, 
interstitiis grosse seriatim punctulatis (sicut wets in 
tubercula planata divisa videntur). Long., 21.; lat., +1 
The very peculiar sculpture of the elytra renders ane it ee 
easily recognisable. The seriate punctures in the interstices are 
so coarse as to equal the width of the interstices themselves, 
which are thus interrupted at short intervals, so as to present the 
appearance of the surface of the elytra being tessellated by 
almost similar longitudinal and transverse strie ; or the appear- 
ance might be described as that of the interstices consisting of 
series of small square flat tubercles. 
Victoria ; Alpine District. 
