BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 657 



91. Saragus Spinol^, Hope. 



Helceus Spinolce, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. Vol. V. 1848, 

 p. 53, pi. VI. fig. 3. 



Black, the thorax and margins of the elytra blackish-brown, 

 legs piceous. Ovate, head depressed, subrugose, the anterior 

 angles of the thorax not meeting, the elytra furnished in the 

 middle with long, crisp, black hair. Body beneath piceous, of the 

 same colour as the legs. Long. 9^ lines, lat. 6| lines. 



Hab. — Swan River. 



To this description of Hope's, Westwood has added in a note 

 with reference to its atiiaity to B. perforatus, Kirby — " It is of 

 a much more regularly oval form, with each extremity somewhat 

 acute, the anterior angles of the prothorax are subtruncate in 

 front of the eyes, and do not overlap each other, leaving an open 

 space of nearly the breadth of the head. The disk of the 

 prothorax has two impressed spots, and wants the central 

 posterior tubercle which exists in ZT. jjer/orahis." 



I have never seen this insect, but from the plate and descrip- 

 tion I have no hesitation in placing it in this genus, and in the 

 incisus group, the lines of crisp hair taking the place of the 

 costae. 



92. Saragus laevicollis, Fabr. 



Silpha laevicollis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 1, 250, 8. — Syst. El. 1, p. 

 338, 8.— 01. Ins. 2, 11, 12, tab. II. fig. 15; Cilihe laevicollis, 

 De Breme, Mon. des Cossyph. I. p. 44, pi. III. fig. 1. ; Saragus 

 laevicollis Erichs. Wiegm. Archiv 1842, I. p. 172, pi. 4, f. 7 ; 

 Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. Vol. V. 1848, p. 56, pi. VIL fig. 5. 



Oval, black, opaque ; head rounded, salient, convex and 

 rugose, border of the epistome and epicranium a little raised. 

 Antennae short, of a reddish brown ; the last five joints broader 

 and rounder than the others. Thorax transverse, sinuate 

 posteriorly and rounded on the sides ; the disk convex and rugose. 



