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margins are eleven similar rows of punctures, these large and 

 regular, separated by a distance of the diameter of one of them, 

 with a larger row of punctures at the junction of the disc with 

 the margins; foliate margins wide, narrowed at apex, flat and 

 smooth, extreme edge narrowly reflexed (seen sideways, laminate). 

 Prosternum carinate, abdomen black, nitid, closely and finely 

 punctate, pleurae smooth, tibiae rough, and, with the tarsi, clothed 

 beneath with reddish tomentum, tibial spurs short. Dimensions 

 $.11 X 12 mm. : 9.15-5 x 11 mm. 



Hah. — Blackheath, Blue Mountains. 



Two specimens are under examination, one undoubtedly male, 

 the other probably female, but without any decided sexual 

 differentiation. The former, taken by my.self, the other by Dr. 

 E. W. Ferguson, under Eucalyptus bark. In colour and general 

 form somewhat like S. Blackbtirni Mac!., but much smaller, less 

 parallel and convex than that species; otherwise I knovv no other 

 Saragus at all resembling it. 



Saragus Frenchi, n.sp. 



Widely oval, convex, glabrous, nitid, black, antennae piceous. 



Head : epistoma semicircular, narrowly raised on margin, 

 strongly and narrowly raised at antennal orbits depressed in front 

 of eyes, these larger and not so widely separated as in S. 

 bminnipennis Mack; head and prothorax vei'y minutely punctured, 

 antennae of same length as prothorax, apical joints slightly 

 enlarged and rounded. Prothorax (2-5 x 7 mm.) widest at base 

 where it is more than twice as wide as apex, the latter semi- 

 circnlarly emarginate, anterior angles obtuse, posterior acute, 

 sides rapidly narrowing from base to apex, foliate mai-i;ins wide 

 and deflexed at base, narrower and convex in front, extreme 

 border verj' narrow at apex and sides, obsolete at base, base very 

 little sinuate, disc without evidence of central line, with minute 

 punctures more evident on margins than on disc. Elytra finely 

 and rather irregularly lineate-punctate, with abouh 17 lines of tine 

 punctures, both punctures and lines obscure and ii're<j;ular at 

 centre, more distinct and regular towards the sides, with about 



