102 Mr. F. P. Pascoc on Additions to 



Allied to 8. simjjJex^, Hope, but shorter and more convex, 

 with a narrow margin to the elytra, and hispid tibia3. The 

 former species has the elytral margins marked with delicate 

 transverse folds. 



Saragus conjlnnatus. 



8. obovatus, niger, subopacus ; elytris singulatim quadricostatis, 

 costis apicem versus evanescentibus, marginibus obsoletis. 



Hah. West Australia (Mr. Duboulay). 



Rather broadly obovate, black, slightly opaque ; head finely 

 punctured, broad in front, the clypeus not emarginate ; pro- 

 thorax very minutely punctured, the disk slightly convex, 

 distinctly separated from the margins, which are unicolorous 

 and not thickened at the edges ; scutellum broadly transverse ; 

 elytra more convex posteriorly, impunctate, but closely covered 

 with minute granules, each with four elevated lines gradually 

 disappearing posteriorly, the first and third strongly marked, 

 the fourth nearly obsolete, the suture raised, the margins not 

 dilated, except very slightly at the anterior angles, and form- 

 ing a narrow elevated edge ; body beneath and femora brownish 

 black, finely punctured; tibias minutely spinulous; tarsi slightly 

 ferruginous ; antennae blackish, the last joint nearly circular, 

 ferruginous. Length 6 lines. 



Narrower than the last [asjjeripes), but at the first glance 

 somewhat similar ; it is, however, a very distinct species, and 

 the elytra are totally destitute of dilated or foliaceous margins ; 

 but there is such a gradual approach to this in some other 

 species as almost to take its absence out of the category of 

 generic characters. 



AdelimW^ geminatum. 



A. fusco-cupreum, subnitidurn ; prothorace pone medium valde In- 

 curvato, supra caualiculato ; elytris iuterrupte striatis. 



Hah. Queensland (Wide Bcay, under logs in dense scrubs). 



Dark copper-brown, faintly nitid ; head finely and irregu- 

 larly punctured, the clypeus narrow anteriorly and rather 

 strongly emarginate ; prothorax transverse, irregular above, 

 finely and unequally punctured, with a slender longitudinal 

 groove, the sides strongly rounded, and behind tlie middle 

 deeply incurved and terminating in a sharp angle ; elytra 

 broader than the prothorax, subovate, rounded at the shoul- 

 ders, inten'uptedly striate, the alternate intervals of the dorsal 



* This species appears to me to be the same as S. carinatm, De Br., of 

 which possibly S. silphoides of the same authority is only a variety, 

 t Kirby, Ti-ans. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 420. 



