BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, P.L.S., &C. 661 



100. Saragus marginellus, Hope. 



Hekmis marginellus, Hope, Trans. Ent. See. Lond. Vol. V. 1848, 

 p. 55, pi. VII. fig. 4. 



" Ater, antennis concoloribus ; thorace convexo, crebrissime 

 sub-tuberculato, marginibusque lateralibus rubro-piceis. Elytra 

 ternis lineis majoribus rugoso-elevatis conspicua, granulisque 

 crebris in interstitiis satis apparentibus, margineque externo ely- 

 trorum rubro-piceo. Corpus infra nigrum, pedibus piceis" (Hope), 



Long. 8 lines, lat. 5 lines. 



ffab. — Norfolk Sound. 



101. Saragus confirm atus, Pascoe. 



Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 4, Vol. V. p. 102. 



" Rather broadly obovate, black, slightly opaque ; head finely 

 punctured, broad in front, the clypeus not emarginate ; prothorax 

 very minutely punctured, the disk slightly convex, distinctly 

 separated from the margins, which are unicolorous and not thick- 

 ened at the edges ; scutellum broadly transverse ; elytra more 

 convex posteriorly, impunctate, but closely covered with minute 

 granules, each with four elevated lines gradually disappearing 

 posteriorly, the first and third strongly mai'ked, the fourth nearly 

 obsolete, the suture raised, the margins not dilated, except very 

 slightly at the anterior angles, and forming a narrow elevated 

 edge ; body beneath and femora brownish-black, finely punc- 

 tured ; tibife minutely spinulous ; tarsi slightly ferruginous ; 

 antennae blackish, the last joint nearly circular, ferruginous " 

 (Pascoe). 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hab. — West Australia. 



102. Saragus opacipennis, n. sp. 



Broadly ovate, black, sub-opaque. Head very minutely punc- 

 tate, the lateral angles round and salient. Thorax sub-nitid, very 

 minutely punctate, the disk a little convex, with the median line 

 lightly marked and almost imperceptibly and broadly depressed 

 near the base, and the margins broad and nearly flat, the anterior 



