100 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Additions to 



tlie base as long, broadest behind the middle, sides of the disk 

 very convex, the margins moderately foliaceous, irregularly 

 punctm-ed, the intervals of the punctures with short bristles, 

 the suture finely raised, and at a short distance on each side 

 of it a strong carina not reaching to the apex, another, but 

 nearly obsolete, at the same distance on the outer side ; body 

 beneath and legs dull brown, the latter especially covered with 

 short hairs. Length 6^-7^ lines. 



Allied in form to //. Fero?m\ De Br§me (Boisd. ?), which, 

 however, is a perfectly glabrous species, except as to the legs. 



Saragus* floccosus. 



S. late ovatus, fulvo-testaceus, subtihtcr punctulatus ; prothorace 

 apice profunde et anguste emarginato; elytris baud carinatis, 

 sutura elevata. 



Hab. Queensland (Wide Bay, on trees ; Brisbane, &c.). 



Broadly ovate, moderately convex, fulvous testaceous, mi- 

 nutely punctulate ; head small, eyes nearly contiguous ; an- 

 tenna? ferruginous ; prothorax short, very transverse, brownish 

 testaceous, the apex narrowly and deeply emarginate ; elytra 

 not carinate, the suture raised, the expanded margins rather 

 narrow ; body beneath and legs dark brown, shining ; margins 

 of the elytra beneath broad, glossy testaceous, minutely punc- 

 tulate. Length 6 lines. 



All the specimens I have seen of this insect have been 

 covered with a close-set white flocculent substance, which 

 Mr. Currey, than whom there could be no higher authority, 

 considered to be a fungus belonging to the genus Isaria of 

 Persoon, supposed to be the early condition of the Spha3rige. 

 This Saragtis, Mr. Masters writes, is found " on trees covered 

 with a white lichen which the insects very much resemble." 



Saragus patelliformis. 



S. subrotundatus, depressus, fuscus, fere glaber ; prothorace in medio 

 excavato; elytris tenuiter punctatis, iudeterminate costulatis, 

 sutura anguste elevata. 



Hah. Western Australia. 



Nearly round, depressed, blackish brown, somewhat shining, 

 and nearly glabrous ; head small, finely punctured, the inter- 

 vals of the punctures granuliform ; prothorax finely punctured, 

 the disk narrow, with a well-marked central impression, each 

 of the dilated margins as broad as the disk ; scutellum very 

 transversely triangular ; elytra rather finely but irregularly 



* Erichsou, Wiegm. Arch. 1842, i. p. 171. 



