BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 



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left crossing right; posterior angles very acute and shining, the 

 base near the sides rather minutely but distinctly and evenly 

 serrate; disc with a narrow median carina, feeble just behind 

 head but strong towards base, and seen from the side resembling 

 a parrot's beak. Scutellum transverse, curvilinearly triangular, 

 with an obtuse median ridge. Elytra slightly wider than pro- 

 thorax, basal half parallel ; margins, except at extreme base, 

 considerably narrower than on prothorax, decreasing to apex, 

 reflexed and rather strongly recurved; suture scarcely thickened; 

 a narrow shining carina on each side of suture continued almost 

 to apex, towards which it curves inwards and then outwards; 

 just before margin a row of small shining granules not quite con- 

 tinuous to base or apex. Body beneath finely punctate and 

 feebly longitudinally corrugate. Legs with short brown pubes- 

 cence. Length 21, width 12|mm. 



//«&.— Western Australia : Geraldton. 



In this species the elytral costfe are continued almost to the 

 apex, and are not abruptly terminated; for the greater part of 

 their length they are parallel and separated 3^ mm., at the apex 

 they are separated 2f mm., and at about the middle of posterior 

 declivity 2 mm. Two species, inoniliferus and consularis, in 

 Macleay's 3rd section appear to approach it, judging by the 

 descriptions ; from the former it differs in being considerably 

 smaller, of uniform colour, and with very small tubercles of a 

 somwhat conical shape near the marginal sutures; it can scarcely 

 be the latter species which is described as obovate; prothorax with 

 tlie posterior tooth large, in the form of a compressed triangular 

 spine ; elytra with the raised suture having on each side at a 

 short distance a sharp costa crenated on both sides. 



Saragus lugubris, n.sp. 



8uboblong, somewhat convex, opaque, piceous-black. 



U''ad densely and rather coarsely punctate ; clypeal sutui-e 

 deeply marked at sides and very feebly pubescent. Antennae 

 extending to intermediate coxae. Prothorax transverse, apex 



