of tlie Genus Catasarcus. 33 



carinas, but a short narrow median impression above tie 

 transverse sulcus; rostrum much narrower than the 

 head, covered with scales; eyes rather large, narrow; 

 prothorax moderately transverse, rounded at the sides, 

 not tuberculate above, the two transverse grooves well 

 marked at the sides, but nearly interrupted along the 

 median line; scutellum very small, broadly triangular; 

 elytra subcordiforra, subsulcate-punctate, the punctures 

 round, with their interspaces elevated and somewhat 

 tuberculiform, two minute tubercles on each side of the 

 scutellum at the base, post-humeral spines small, slender, 

 acute, the posterior comparatively short, the median 

 about half their size, all black, but partially covered with 

 scales and with black setae; body beneath, pitchy, legs 

 reddish, both pretty closely covered with ashy scales; 

 antennee dark ferruginous, the scape and funicle very 

 scaly, with a few long black setae here and there^ the 

 club dark brown, pubescent. 



Length 3^ lines. 



Hah. — Champion Bay. 



This is a short thick species, like C. concretus, but with 

 the elytra more cordiform. My specimen has two broad 

 dark stripes on each side the median line of the pro- 

 thorax, owing to the scales being very much scattered. 

 The disposition of the scales on the spines gives the 

 latter the appearance, when viewed under an ordinary 

 lens, of being margined (with black) ; they are, how- 

 ever, pretty regularly distributed. 



28. Catasarcus capito. 



Oblong ovate, black, with scattered grayish scales, 

 and partial lines and bars of chalky-white scales (under 

 a strong lens of a pearly hue) ; head broad, convex in 

 front, the vertex and a stripe in front of dark fawn- 

 coloured scales, a narrow median groove above the trans- 

 verse sulcus, no carina; rostrum shorter than the head ; 

 prothorax moderately transverse, the sides slightly 

 rounded, the base and apex of nearly equal breadth, 

 a stripe in the middle and sides of chalky scales, the two 

 transverse grooves distinct, the intervals not tubercu- 

 late ; scutellum narrowly triangular towards the apex ; 

 elytra more or less covered with sand-like exudations, 



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