of the Genus Catasarcus. 37 



Hah. — Champion Bay. 



With the specimen from which the above description 

 is taken, I associate, somewhat doubtfully, another more 

 broadly ovate, with shorter rostrum, broader head, and 

 posterior spines much shorter. They have both the raised 

 blotch or mark which does not seem to occur again in 

 any other species. 



33. Catasarcus scordalus. 



Moderately ovate, black, thinly covered with very 

 minute whitish scales ; front of the head jQat, longer than 

 the rostrum, with five short but very distinct carinee, the 

 outermost between the eye and the transverse sulcus; 

 prothorax nearly twice as broad at the base as long, 

 rather remotely foveate, the intervals slightly irregular 

 and finely punctured, the scales very few; scutellum 

 very small; elytra sulcate-punctate, the intervals tuber- 

 culiform, post-humeral spine reduced to a short thick 

 tubercle, median and posterior rather small, widely apart 

 on each side ; body beneath, and legs, with few scales, 

 the legs dull ferruginous; antennae dark ferruginous, 

 the funicle slender. 



Length 4^ lines. 



Ho.b. — Champion Bay. 



A black dullish-looking species, like C.funereus, but, 

 inter alia, with more slender posterior spines, and the 

 post-humeral a mere tubercle. 



34. Catasarcus ericius. 



Narrowly ovate, black, with whitish scales principally 

 confined to the impressed parts ; head flat in front, with 

 four caringe, and with the rostrum densely covered with 

 whitish scales; prothorax short, the sides slightly 

 rounded, nearly straight from the middle to the base, 

 not tuberculate above ; elytra sulcate-punctate, the in- 

 tervals distinctly tuberculate, post-humeral spine small, 

 black, the median and posterior pitchy, the former 

 acutely conical and about half the size of the latter; 

 body beneath, black, covered with elongate whitish 

 scales mixed with others which are round and much 

 smaller; legs and a,ntenn8e brownish-ferruginous, thinly 

 covered with whitish scales, the funicle with a few black- 

 ish setae, club dark brown, pubescent. 



