BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 505 



ovalibus, subplanatis, profunde striatis (sti'iis in fundo suh lente 

 cremdatis) ; abdominis segmentis tiibus ultimis utrinque foveolatis 

 punctulatisque ; episternis posticis haud punctulatis. 



Long. 15, lat. 5 mm. 



Very shining black. Head rather small, smooth ; eyes promi- 

 nent ; post-clypeal suture distinct ; clypeus with a well-marked 

 punctiform impression on each side ; the impressions on each side 

 behind the clypeus short and shallow. Prothorax almost as long 

 as wide (3J mm. x 4 mm.), truncate in front, wider at the anterior 

 angles than at the posterior, lightly rounded on the sides ; the 

 lateral margins narrowly reflexed in front, widely so at the pos- 

 terior angles ; median line lightly marked, not reaching either 

 margin, ending in front in a faint transverse iuipression, and 

 behind in a deep foveolet \ disc closely covered with minute 

 transverse striolse. Elytra oval (8 mm. x 5 mm.), flat, deeply 

 striate ; sides abrupt, parallel, narrowing slightly towards the 

 base ; lateral margins rather wide, reflexed, rounded off and 

 joining the basil border at the shoulders, sinuate towards the 

 apex; the dorsal interstices equal, rather convex, extending in 

 full depth to both base and apex, 3rd with three distinct punc- 

 tures, 7th not elevated at the shoulders, 8th and 9th flat, and of 

 about equal width ; 7th stria shallow and finely punctulate ; 8th 

 shallow, interrupted by large punctures, these more widely placed 

 in front, behind more closely set and elongate ; abbreviated stria 

 short, oblique. Three last segments of the abdomen with a broad 

 shallow transverse impression on each side, these impressions 

 punctate. Prosternum without a margin. Metasternal episterna 

 impunctate. 



This species is allied to *S'. auhei, but is altogether a flatter and 

 smaller insect. 



A single male specimen taken June, 1888. 



Hah. — Coonabarabran, N.S. W. 



Sarticus saphyreomarginatus. 

 Feronia (Steropus) saphyreo^narginata, Casteln., Trans. Eoy. Soc. 

 Victoria, 1865, VIII. p. 222 ; Feronia (Steropus) cyaneocincta^ 



