BY W. MACLEAY, JUN., ESQ. 325 



conicis interstitio quarto post humeros quadn'tuberculato 

 postice piano, ventre medio fulvo-hirto lateraliter albo- 

 maculato. 



Long. 9 lin., lat. 3} lin. 



Hab. Flinders Range, S. Australia. 



The affinity of this insect is to S. suhlineatus. The rostrum 

 is very slightly carinated. The thorax, which is much bulged 

 out in the middle, is thinly tuberculated, the tubercles having 

 a glossy bead-like appearance. The elytra are roughly punctured 

 and granulated in rows with small glossy conical tubercles at 

 some distance apart on the interstices. The fourth interstice is 

 only marked by four small tubercles at the shoulder. The whole 

 upper surface is very thickly clothed with cinereous scales, while 

 the sides and two vittse on the elytra are nearly white. The 

 venti'al segments have reddish hair in the middle, with a white 

 spot on each side. 



SCLERORINUS GeRMARI. 



Oblongo-ellipticus niger confertim fusco-squamosus, thorace 

 trivittato tuberculato tuberculis parvis hemisphsericis 

 lateribus medio ampliato, elyti'is subseriatim rugoso- 

 punctatis granulatis interstitiis subremote tuberculatis 

 tuberculis parvis subconicis interstitio quarto piano humeris 

 prominentibus, ventre medio fulvo-hirto. 



Long. 6| lin., lat. 2| lin. 



Hab. Port Lincoln. 



This species also is closely allied to the S. suhlineatus of 

 Germar, after whom I have named it ; the bulging thorax and 

 short elytra give it, however, a very different appearance. The 

 head, thorax, and elytra are marked with whitish vitta?. The 

 tubercles on the thorax are small, and are each armed with a 

 long yellowish seta. Tlie sculpture of the elytra is rough, and 

 confused as in S. suhlineahos ; the fourth interstice is flat, and 

 the humeral tubercle is rather large. The middle of the ventral 

 segments is clothed with reddish haii% but less thickly in the 

 female than in the male. 



