224 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA. By Arthur M. Lea. Part II. D Y T I S C I D ^. LaNCESTES ocularis, 11. 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 l)ifurcate at its base, joined to the 6 th at about a third from the apex, between the 5th stripe and the base is an irregular circle with an extension behind, 7 th and 8th soldered at the shoulders — near apex connected with 4th; legs, antennas 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 ; antennae thin, passing intermediate coxte. 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. Tibias with seta? and spurs at their apices, spurs to
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