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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 
COLEOPTERA. 
By Arthur M. Lea. 
Part II. 
D Y T I S C I D M. 
Lancestes ocularis, n.sp. 
Subconvex, highly polished. Piceous-black; head with a testa- 
ceous blotch in its middle; anterior half of prothorax testaceous, 
except behind the emargination and a narrow indistinct stroke at 
the middle; each elytron with eight narrow longitudinal stripes — 
1st and 2nd joined and barbed at apex, open behind, 3rd and 4th 
joined at base and apex, 5th bifurcate at its base, joined to the 
6th at about a third from the apex, between the 5 th stripe and 
the base is an irregular circle with an extension behind, 7th and 
8th soldered at the shoulders — near apex connected with 4th; 
legs, antennae and palpi reddish, the posterior legs tinged with 
piceous. Above very densely and extremely minutely punctate ; 
head with two transverse punctures on each side; prothorax with 
a row of feeble closely connected punctures near apex, with some 
almost obsolete on each side near base; elytra with two very 
feeble rows ; sterna indistinctly wrinkled ; intermediate femora 
with a row of feeble punctures. 
Head very smooth ; without impressions at sides of eyes ; 
antennte thin, passing intermediate coxae.' Prothorax widely 
transverse, narrower in front than behind ; widely emarginate at 
apex, base feebly bisinuate ; angles acute, the posterior but little 
produced; prosternal keel narrow, lanceolate, basal half margined, 
received into a narrow mesosternal excavation. Elytra wider 
than prothorax, widest about the middle; not quite covering 
abdomen. Tibice with setre and spurs at their apices, spurs to 
