collected in Australia and Tasmania. 385 
The type of this species was from Champion Bay. S. 
duboulait seems best placed in Sympetes, the prosternum 
being declivous behind and not received by the meso- 
sternum. At roots of bent grass, on sandhills (Walker). 
SARAGUS. 
Saragus, Hrichson, in Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1842, 1, 
pale 
Suragus levicollis. 
Silpha levicollis, Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 73; Oliv., 
Hint.) in, 015 yp. 02) 't. 2. fea 
Saragus levicollis, Er., in Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1842, 
ft, p. 172, +.’ 4, figs. 7, a0; de Breme, ssa 
Monogr. Cossyph., i., p. 44, t. 3, fig. 1; Hope, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1848, p. 56, t. 7, fig. 5; 
Macl., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., ii. (2), p. 657. 
Cilibe costatus, Sol., Studi Hnt., p. 355, t. 18, figs. 
10-13 (1848). 
Hab. Tasmania—Hobart and Launceston. 
Sandy places, under stones and at roots of herbage 
(Walker). 
Saragus bicarinatus, n. sp. (Plate VILI., fig. 10.) 
Moderately elongate, broad, convex, subparallel, very obtuse 
behind, brownish-black, opaque. Head deeply sunk into the pro- 
thorax (the eyes only just visible from above), thickly and finely 
punctate, the epistoma limited at the sides and posteriorly by a 
shallow groove ; prothorax strongly transverse, deeply emarginate 
in front, the sides rapidly converging from the base, a little 
rounded anteriorly, the base slightly emarginate in the middle, 
rounded to the outer limit of the disc, and then very obliquely 
truncate to the acute, deflexed, posteriorly-produced hind angles, 
the anterior angles rather obtuse, the disc convex, obsoletely 
canaliculate in the middle, and very finely, closely punctate, with 
the interspaces (viewed under a strong lens) densely minutely 
punctured, the margins broadly, horizontally explanate, shagreened 
and minutely granulate, the exterior edge not reflexed ; elytra 
about two and a half times longer than the prothorax, and of the 
same width at the base, parallel to about the middle, very obtuse 
behind, strongly trisinuate at the base, with subacute, deflexed, 
