20(5 Afr. Francis P. Pascoe on 



gentes. Onili grosse granulati.* Scopus gradatim in- 

 crassatus ; funicuhis 7-articulatus, articulo primo longi- 

 usculo, valido, secundo obconico, 3-7 brevibus, gradatim 

 crassioribus, in clavam continuatis; dava breviter ovata, 

 obsolete articulata. FroflLorax transversus, antice angustus, 

 basi subbisinuatus, lobis ocularibus distinctis. Scuttl- 

 lum invisum. Elytra breviter ovata, convexa, prothorace 

 vix latiora. Femora subflexuosa, mutica; tibioe. breves, 

 rectae; ^arsi mediocres, articulo primo triangulari, secundo 

 brevi, tertio sat fortiter bilobo, quarto modice elongato ; 

 unrjuiculi tenues, divaricati. Rima pectoralis profunda. 

 Mesosternum fornicatum.f Episterna metathoracis obso- 

 leta. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus ampliatis ; 

 sutura prima fere obsoleta. 



This genus comes into the same group as Tragopus, 

 but is very distinct in habit from it and its allies, and is 

 remarkable for the peculiar squamosity in connexion 

 with the regular convexity of the upper surface. The 

 scales are comparatively large, and are sunk in deep round 

 fovese, which position prevents their coming into contact 

 with one another, and gives the surface a speckled ap- 

 pearance, which is further increased by rows of small 

 black granules on the elytra ; these granules have a 

 depressed point in the centre. 



Decilaus squamosvs. 



D. ovalis, convexus, niger, squamis albis sat dense 

 tectus ; rostro capite duplo longiore, confertim rugoso- 

 punctato ; antennis ferrugineis, sparse griseo-pilosis ; 

 prothorace utrinque valde rotundato, lobis ocularibus 

 albo-ciliatis ; elytris striatis, interstitiis latis, convexis, 

 uniseriatim et remote granulatis, granulis apice depressis ; 

 corpore infra pedibusque sat remote squamosis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hah. — Port Augusta. 



• There are probably ten or twelve facets across the broadest diameter. 

 There are about the same number in Analcis ((Brexis), a genus of this gi'oup, 

 the eyes of which, M. Lacordaire characterizes as " assez finemeut gra- 

 nules." In Tragopus they undoubtedly are, as he says, finely granulate. 



f Dr. Kirsch (Berlin. Ent. Zeits. 1869, p. 198, note) uses this word aa 

 the equivalent for M. Laoordr.ire'e "en vdute." 



