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Description of a New Geiias and Species of Lucaiioid Coleoptera 

 from the Interior of Tasmaiua : by Major F. J. Sidney Parry, 

 F.L.S. 



HoPLOGONUS*, Gen. nov. 



Hatitu fere generis Lissotes, at caput depressum, nee con- 

 vexum ; niandibuliEe porrectne, nee falcatte ; in utroque sexu 

 protliorace angulis posticis elytrisque angulis humeralibus .spino 

 sub-erecto armatis ; oculi minuti. 



Hoplogoims Siiiisonl, n. sp. ^ , $ (var. max). 



Plate I. figs. 1, 2, 3. 



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

 atis, capite prothoraceque fere longitudine, in medio dente forti 

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

 marginali sinuata, augulis ante oculos acutis, lateribus in medio 

 obtuse productis ; clypeo parvo, conico ; clava antennarum ut 

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

 elytrisque latiori, sub-convexo, prope angulis anticis profunde 

 foveato, medio leviter canaliculate, angulis anticis productis, 

 rotundatis, posticis fortiter obliquis, spino minuto, suberecto 

 armatis, elytris brevibus, subconvexis, late costatis, augulis 

 humeralibus spino acuto, suberecto instructis ; scutello parvo ; 

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

 sexu spino acuto armatis. 



Long, mandibulae 4 lin., capitis 1| lin., pro thoracis 2| lin., 

 elytrorum 5 lin. 



Hab. Tasmania. Coll. Parry & Fry. 



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

 angles less oblique, the suberect spine considerably more pro- 

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

 foveas 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 



* 'oic\ov anna et yuvos angulus. 



