BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 671 



than half the breadth at the base, and separated from the margins 

 by a strongly marked cux'ved impression; elytra with numerous 

 small punctures, the disk slightly concave, the margin very distinct, 

 gradually narrowing posteriorly ; body beneath like the upper 

 part ; legs and antennae pale reddish-brown, with a short greyish 

 pile " (Pascoe). 



Length, 5 lines. 



Hah. — Champion Bay. 



124. Saragus l^vis, n. sp. 



Broadly ovate, sub-depressed, black, sub-nitid, very smooth. 

 Head broadly rounded and very slightly reflected in front, punc- 

 turation if any extremely minute. Thorax smooth, the disk a 

 little convex, the eraargination in front deep and narrow, the 

 posterior angles acutely recurved. Elytra not visibly punctate, 

 slightly convex, the margins as broad at the humeral angles as 

 those of the thorax, flat and thickened on the edge, the humeral 

 angles broadly rounded. The terminal spur of the anterior tibise 

 acute but not large, the tarsi ai'e clothed beneath with golden hair, 

 the thi*ee first joints enlarged. 



Long. 8 lines, lat. 5 lines. 



Hob. — Interior New South Wales. 



125. Saragus gagates, Breme. 



Cilihe gagates, Breme, Mon. Cossyph. I. p. 52, pi. IV. fig. 1. 



Ovate, deep black, nitid. Head transverse, a little emarginate 

 in front, and raised on the borders ; cly pens transversely wrinkled ; 

 epicranium convex ; antennse short, the terminal joints slightly 

 dilated and testaceous. Thorax smooth, transverse, narrowed in 

 front, nitid, the median line elevated into a carina, margins broad, 

 scarcely granulose, flat, the edge folded upwards, the anterior 

 angles extending beyond the half of the head, the posterior a 

 little recurved. Elytra somewhat sinuate at the base, convex, 



