1270 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



which it is closely allied. In some respects it would seem to 

 resemble certain HopatridcE (e.g. Cadius and Sobas), but I think 

 the dense villosity clothing the tarsi beneath, the absence of the 

 cljpeal excavation so usual in that group, and the long dense 

 villosity of the general surface, are characters that could hardly 

 combine in a Hopatrid. The vestiture is not unlike that of 

 Ectyche (though it is considerably longer and more dense) in 

 Helopidoi, but many characters {e.g., the head very deeply sunk 

 into the prothorax) at once shows this to be a mere accidental 

 analogy. On the whole I have little doubt that it is to Saragus 

 the present insect is really related. 



The general form is sub-globular, the length of the whole insect 

 being something less than half again its greatest width, and its 

 height (^.e., distance through the body from centre of metasternum 

 to opposite point on elytra) is nearly half its length, — so that in 

 shape it resembles a Chrysomelid Csay Aitgomela hypochalcea^ 

 Germ.). The mentum is feebly carinated longitudinally. The 

 clypeus is strongly transverse, its free margin continuously 

 reflexed, its anterior outline sub-sinuate. The eyes in repose 

 are quite invisible from above. The antennae resemble those of 

 Saragus. The border of the protliorax is narrowly flattened, — 

 somewhat as in Nyctozoilus, but the actual margin is scarcely 

 thickened and is evenly serrate along its whole length. The 

 elytra are soldered together ; their margin is quite as feeble as in 

 Nyctozoilus. The prosternum between the anterior coxse is about 

 as wide as in Saragus, and arches down behind without any 

 process properly so called, the opposite face of the metasternum 

 being scarcely at all concave. The metasternum is quite short, 

 and the epipleurse of the elytra are flat and wide, — even more so 

 than in Nyctozoilus. The legs are stout and shortish, the anterior 

 tibise terminating in a curved sharp spur about equal in length 

 to the basal four tarsal joints together. The basal joint of the 

 hind tarsi is equal to the following two together and is evidently 

 shorter than the apical joint. The rest of the characters appear 

 to be as in Saragus. 



