200 REVISION OF PTEROHEL^US (contd.) AND SARAGUS, ETC., 



Saragus perl^vis, n.sp. 



Moderately elongate and subparallel, black, nitid, smooth : 

 oral organs, antennae and tarsi reddish. H end and pronotiim 

 quite impunctate, the former widest at canthvis, sides con- 

 verging and sinuate to the truncate and unreflexed front of 

 epistoma ; frontal ridge slightly raised, without any separat- 

 ing sulcus from epistoma : antennse with third joint about 

 equal to fourth and fifth combined [apical joints wanting]. 

 PrntJim-a.r (5 x 95 mm. ; length in middle, width at base), 

 width across front angles 4 mm., disc to combined margins 

 as 7 to 9-5 ; apex semicircularly emarginate, anterior angles 

 produced beyond eyes, obtuse and rounded : sides evenly 

 rounded, incurved at the blunted but acute posterior angle, 

 base sinuate, foliate margins wide, concave, with extreme 

 border strongly recurved except posteriorly ; disc with a very 

 faint suggestion of a central line, two shallow foveas near 

 base. ScufeUuin curvilinear-triangular. Elytra as wide as 

 prothorax at base, sides parallel for half their length, widely 

 rounded at apex, shoulders obtuse, foliate margins wide and 

 horizontal, narrowed to about half their width at apex, ex- 

 treme border raised : disc slightly depressed behind scutellum, 

 quite smooth except for a lateral row of close, rather small, 

 shallow punctures, and a faint longitudinal stria a little above 

 this row. Prosternum sharply convex, not carinate, pro- 

 duced posteriorly into a blunt tooth, received into a wide 

 triangular receptacle in the mesosteruum : sternum faintly 

 granulose, basal segments of abdomen closely strigose. Apical 

 segment minutely punctate and bordered a red colour : 

 anterior tibiae rough, their apical spurs unusually small, all 

 femora smooth and nitid, and red at the knees. Diwensioiia: 

 17x95 mm. 



Hah. — Carnarvon, West Atistralia. 



A single specimen, female, in the National Museum, Mel- 

 bourne, differs from its 'nearest ally, S. la'vix JNlacl., by its 

 elongate, subparallel form, its much narrower border to 

 pronotum^ and the elytra without any indication of raised 



