462 Mr. Francis P. Pascoe on 



To these characters it may be added that the rostrum 

 and antennae are closely scaly, and that the legs are 

 shorter, the hind femora not extending beyond the abdo- 

 men, than in the typical species of Tragopus. The insect 

 described below is covered with a dense layer of very 

 small pale grayish-yellow scales. 



Elceagna squamihunda. 



E. cylindrico-ovalis, nigra, squamulis flavescentibus 

 omnino densissime tecta ; rostro valido, hand dilatato ; 

 an tennis squamigeris, setis interjectis; oculi tenue gra- 

 nulati ; prothoi-ace antice utrinque rotundato, deinde 

 parallelo, apicera versus tubulato, supra vage punctate, 

 punctis propter squamas vix observandis ; elytris pro- 

 thorace hand latioribus, subcordiformibus vel postice sen- 

 sim angustioribus, vage subseriatim punctatis, punctis 

 ut in prothorace setigeris sed majoribus, ampliato- 

 impressis ; uncis tibiarum unguiculisque piceis. 



Long. 3^ lin. 



Hah. — South Australia (Port Augusta) . 



Paleticus, n. g. 



Rostrum subvalidum, arcuatura ; scrobes prasmedianae, 

 subobliquae. OcuU grosse granulati. Scainis sensim 

 incrassatus, oculum attingens; funiculus 7-articulatus, 

 articulis duobus basalibus longiusculis, ceteris brevibus, 

 sensim latioribus ; clava ovalis. ProtJiorax subquadratus, 

 planatus, lateribus abrupte verticalis, apicem versus co- 

 arctatus, basi bisinuatus. Elytra late ovata, subdepressa, 

 lateribus verticalibus, humeris obsoletis, apice coarctata. 

 Pedes modice elongati ; femora crassiuscula, mutica ; tibice 

 flexuosas J tarsi modice elongati, articulo tertio subbilobo. 

 Mima pectoralis inter coxas intermedias protensa, apice 

 cavernosa. E pi sterna metathoracis distincta, angusta. 

 Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus ampliatis. Processus 

 intercoxalis latus, arraatus. 



The prothorax is at once characteristic of the genus, 

 which is otherwise allied to Poropterus ; the sides, how- 

 ever, although abruptly vertical, do not form at the 

 junction with the jn-onotum anything like a keel or ridge. 

 The five species described below are very homogeneous 

 in their appearance, but at the same time are very 

 trenchantly diflierentiated. 



