BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &,C. 655 



Those having the elytra striate or faintly costate as — 

 S. australis, Boisd. ; *S'. limhatus, Pascoe ; aS'. simplex, Hope ; S. 

 tarsalis, Hope; aS'. carinatus, Breme; S. asidoides, Pascoe; S. 

 asperipes, Pascoe ; S. exulans, Pascoe ; S. slriattpennis, Mad. ; S. 

 gerainatus, Macl. (2) The group of which S. hrunnipes may 

 be taken as the type. S. brunnipes, Breme ; S. Pascoei, Macl. ; 

 S. hrunnipeyiyiis, Macl. ; S. magister, Pascoe, and (3,) of some 

 smooth rather flat circular shaped species chiefly from Western 

 Australia — S. Duboulayi, Pascoe ; *S'. Icevis, Macl, ; S. gagates, 

 Breme ; S. orhicidaris, Breme ; S. rotundatus, Breme ; S. suhrvr 

 gosus, Breme ; S. loiicarinatus, Breme ; >S'. pateUi/or77iis, Pascoe. 

 Other species remain which can scarcely be placed with any of the 

 foregoing groups. S. ovalis, Macl., a smooth oblong species of the 

 S. incisus type, and Helcaus testudineus, Hope, which may be a 

 Saragus, but has a general resemblance to the genus Encara. 



Section I. 



Elytra costate. 



88. Saragus incisus, Pascoe. 



Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 4, Vol. V. p. 101. 



" Obovate, dark-brown, opaque ; head and prothorax covered 

 Avith short minute ridges (except the centre of the latter), and 

 more or less longitudinal or slightly oblique ; eyes not approxi- 

 mate, front rather concave ; prothorax deeply emarginate at the 

 apex, the angles on each side produced, subacute, behind the middle 

 a slightly gibbous lobe angularly emarginate posteriorly ; scu- 

 tellum broad, rounded behind ; elytra gradually broader behind 

 for about two-thirds of their length, the suture finely raised, each 

 elytron with a stout costa near the suture, abruptly terminating 

 near the commencement of the posterior declivity, the space 

 between the two irregularly but finely punctured, between the 

 costa and the expanded margin three rows of small elevated 

 tubercles ; body beneath and legs black, rather glossy " (Pascoe). 



Length, 10 lines. 



Hah. — Mudgee, New South Wales. 



