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little reflexed. Eyes large, transverse, bordered in front by 

 oblique moderately raised impression; front very minutely granu- 

 lose; antennae as in S. Macleayi Pasc. Prothorax very transverse, 

 depressed (6 x 16 mm.), deeply and squarely emarginate, anterior 

 angles almost (in one case quite) enclosing the head, anterior 

 angles sharply rectangular, with extreme apex showing a tendency 

 to form a tooth. Sides widely rounded, strongly reflexed, widest 

 at the acute posterior angles. Base strongly bisinuate. Border 

 wide in front (where it is notched in the middle) and sides, 

 narrow at base. Viewed from the side, the edge is convex and 

 continuous with the under surface, and narrower than that of 

 the elytra. Margins very wide and covered with minute granules. 

 Disc much soioother, almost obsoletely carinate towards apex, 

 but raised into a narrow hump towards base. Discal portion 

 6*5 mm. wide. Scutellum transversely elliptical at ba-se, appa- 

 rently smooth. Elytra wider than long(14 x 17 mm.), squarely 

 oval, greatest width behind the middle, a little narrower than 

 prothorax at the shoulders, these widely obtuse; sides gradually 

 expanding till near apical third, then rather abruptly I'ounded. 

 Apex triangularly notched at suture. Margins not so wide as 

 those of the pi'othorax, widest at shoulder (where they are slightly 

 gibbous) and behind the middle, narrower at middle and apex 

 through the bulging of the discal parts in these regions; finely 

 and rather distantly granulose. Disc moderately convex through- 

 out, rugosely punctulate, with three faintly indicated costse 

 about equidistant from one another, moi*e or less parallel, 

 becoming obsolete on apical declivity. Suture strongly carinate 

 from base to the junction with margin, only slightly raised on 

 apical margin. Frostermun minutely granulose, metasternum 

 and abdomen finely rugosely punctured, the sculpture of abdomen 

 appearing like a series of longitudinal scratches, reverse of 

 margins coarsely punctate. The whole underside a dull black. 

 Legs 6nely punctulate and with short scattered recumbent hairs 

 of a reddish colour. Tibial spines shorter and thicker than in 

 S. 3Iacleayi Pasc. DLaenslons — 19-22 mm. long, 17-19y mm. 

 wide. 



