BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 653 



little etnarginate anteriorly, the clypeus and epicranium convex, 

 separated by a deep suture. Antennae of a clear brown, about the 

 length of the thorax, the four terminal joints small but more 

 rounded than the others, particularly the last which is oval and 

 pointed. Thorax flat, scarcely visibly punctate, transverse, sinuate 

 behind, rounded on the sides, and narrowed in front, the median 

 line elevated towards the base, the margins flat, broad and bordered, 

 the anterior angles obtuse, half the length of the head, the poste- 

 rior slightly salient and curved backwards. Elytra rounded 

 behind, convex, nitid, somewhat sinuate at the base, the disk 

 convex and punctate ; on each elytron three very obliterate costse, 

 placed a little obliquely, suture strongly elevated, mai'gins broad, 

 flat and folded on the borders, equally broad throughout and a 

 little gibbous at the humeral angles ; under the body brown, 

 punctate ; feet of the same colour, the two penultimate segments 

 of the abdomen bordered with red. 



Long. 10 lines, lat 1\ lines. 

 Hah. — West Australia. 



Genus Saragus, Erichs. 



Archiv fiir Naturg. 1842, p. 171.— Lac. Gen. Col. Vol. V, 

 p. 348. 



Head sunk in the thorax to the insertion of the antennse, a 



little narrowed behind and broadly truncate or sinuate in front, 



the c]ypeus separated from the front by a suture frequently almost 



obsolete. Eyes tolerably prolonged on the front. Antennse shorter 



than the thorax ; their three, foux', or five last joints somewhat 



orbicular, forming a slightly conspicuous mass. Thorax transverse, 



parabolically rounded on the sides, broadly and deeply emarginate 



semi-circulai-ly in front, contiguous to the elytra and bisinuate at the 



base, with the posterior angles salient behind, the foliaceous part 



broad, flat or concave, and raised on the borders. Elytra oval, more 



or less convex, their margins of variable bi-eadth, often narrow 



throughout. Legs somewhat long; the tibiae finely rough, the 

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