190 ON THE SCAllITIDiE OF NEW HOLLAND, 



To the next genus Scaraphites, I have only one species to add, 

 and I have named it from the intermediate geographical position 

 which it seems to hold between S. MacLeayi, the Sydney species, 

 and S. rotuvdipennis, the Port Phillip species. 



SCARAPHITES INTERMEDIUS. 



Niger nitidus, capite bifoveolato antice rugosissimo, elytris 

 striato-punctatis punctisque sex in margine humerali im- 

 pressis. 

 Long. 12 lin., lat. 4| lin. 

 Hab. lUawarra and Merimbula. 

 The whole insect is of a glossy black. The foveas between 

 the eyes and the anterior part of the face are very much wrinkled 

 and crenulated. The thorax is slightly emarginate at the base, 

 and is marked with fine transverse strife. The elytra are rather 

 duller than the thorax, and are marked with fine punctured 

 striffi. Besides these, there are series of marginal and submarginal 

 punctures of a larger size. The marginal series consists of six or 

 seven uninterrupted punctures close to the humeral angle, with 

 one or two more at irregular intervals, the submarginal of six at 

 distant and irregular intervals. The fore tibise are strongly and 

 bluntly tridentated externally. The intermediate are armed 

 with a strong subacute tooth. 



I was under the impression for some time that this insect 

 was identical with the 8. Lenceus, of Westwood. It is evidently, 

 however, very different. I have never seen S. Lenceus, but it 

 would appear from the description to be more like to 8. lati- 

 fennis, than to any of those from the Eastern parts of New 

 Holland, and it will certainly be found to be a "Western Aus- 

 tralian insect. 



Of the nine species of which the genus 8caraphites is composed, 

 four, viz., 8. Bacchus, S Lernceus, 8. 8ilenus, and 8. latipennis 

 are from the West Coast. Two, viz., 8. crenaticollis and 8. 

 Iiirtipes are from South Australia, while the remaining three, 

 8. rotomdipennis, 8. MacLeayi, and 8. mtermedius are found near 

 the Eastern shores of this vast island. 



A very ready mode of recognizing the three last named 



