of the Genus Catasarcus. 29 



Hah. — Champion Bay. 



Closely allied to C. helUcosus, but, owing to the more 

 numerous scales, apparently very difi'erent. The head 

 and rostrum are, however, narrower, and the grooves are 

 well filled with rounded scales. 



20. Catasarcus araneus. 



Ovate, pitchy-brown, covered with numerous pale gray 

 scales : head flat in front, two well-marked intermediate 

 carinfe, those at the sides commencing below the eyes ; 

 prothorax short, slightly rounded at the sides, broadest 

 at the base, not tuberculate above, the two transverse 

 grooves very distinct ; scutellum small, ti'iangular ; elytra 

 seriate-punctate, the punctures small, shallow and indis- 

 tinctly limited, the intervals not tuberculate, post-humeral 

 spine rather short, median and posterior spines moderate, 

 the former prsemedian ; body beneath closely covered with 

 grayish scales ; legs ferruginous, the scales more dis- 

 persed, and mixed with blackish setee on the tibiee ; 

 antenna ferruginous, the funicle, especially the first joint, 

 shorter than usual. 



Length 3^ lines. 



j&a6.— Champion Bay. 



There is no carina bordering the inner margin of the 

 eye in this species. 



21. Catasarcus alhuminosus . 



Oblong-ovate, yellowish-brown, the upper surface 

 having- a glairy appearance of a paler hue ; head flattish 

 in front, four oblong protuberances above the transverse 

 sulcus, and in the cavity formed by the two central ones, a 

 narrow well-marked carina, an oblong curved impression 

 beneath the eye, the latter nearly round ; prothorax 

 short, moderately transverse, opaque, marked with two 

 indistinct transverse grooves, the intervals impunctate 

 and without tubercles; scutellum triangular, indetermi- 

 nate; elytra striate-punctate, the punctures strongly 

 impressed and gradually larger to between the posterior 

 spines, those at the sides also larger and more or less 

 subquadrate, post-humeral spine sharply conical, the 

 median and posterior longer and stouter than usual, 

 the latter pair slightly recurved ; body beneath, blackish ; 

 legs ferruginous, but clothed with dispersed grayish hair- 

 like scales; antennte glossy ferruginous, the club dull 

 brownish, lastfivejoints of the funicle of nearl}^ equal length. 



