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here and there confluent, the apex broadly emarginate, the lateral 

 margins nearly confounded with the disk ; elytra closely lineate- 

 punctate, the margins very narrow, and almost disappearing poste- 

 riorly ; body beneath and femora glossy chestnut-brown ; tibiae,, 

 tarsi, and antennse pale ferruginous, finely pubescent " (Pascoe). 



Length, 5| lines. 



Hah. — Lord Howe's Island, 



117, SaRAGUS STRIATIPENNia, n. sp. 



Ovate, black, sub-nitid. Head almost smooth, clypeus very 

 slightly emarginate. Thorax smooth, convex on the disk, deeply 

 emarginate in front, sinuate behind, with the margins broad and 

 turned up and thickened on the edge. Elytra slightly convex, and 

 scarcely rounded on the side, covered with close rows of coarse 

 irregular rather shallow punctures, the interstices 4-8-12 slightly 

 costate, and 2-6 and 10 just traceable, the margins are rather broad 

 and corrugated ; under surface black, nitid and punctate ; the 

 terminal spur of the fore tibige short and conical, the second and 

 third joints of anterior tarsi broad and depressed, the fourth very 

 small. 



Long, 6| lines, lat. 4 lines. 



Hah. — Monaro, New South Wales. 



118. Saragus geminatus, n. sp. 



Very like the preceding species, but of a more opaque black. 

 The head is more prominently angled in front of the eyes, and the 

 clypeus is rather more emarginate and deflexed, the thorax is less 

 sinuate behind and rather more widely emarginate in front with 

 the median line lightly marked. The elytra are smooth, with 17 

 rows of minute punctures on each elytron, with a smooth very 

 slio'htly raised line between every two rows of punctures ; the 

 margins are rather broad and scarcely if at all corrugated. The 

 legs are as in ^S*, striatipennis. 



Long. 7 lines, lat. 4| lines. 



Hah. — Upper Hunter. 



