G24 Major T. Broun on some 



inspected sideways is seen to extend right to the front, tlie 

 thoracic median depression is larojer and almost reaches 

 the basal margin, though more shallow there, the intra- 

 humeral strise are more sharply defined as far back as the 

 middle of the elytra, without any sign of posterior prolonga- 

 tion, and, what is of more importance, outside each of these 

 there is an additional slender stria like that seen in M. Raffray's 

 S. frontalis, which species, however, is materially different in 

 other respects. 



Antennce as long as the head and thorax, with slender 

 elongate greyish hairs, their basal joint hardly twice as long 

 as broad, third obconical, nearly as long as, but more slender 

 than, the second, joints 4-6 subequal and moniliform, seventh 

 and eighth rather broader, ninth and tenth transverse ; the 

 basal portion of the eleventh is subquadrate, but its distinct 

 apical appendage renders the joint conical. 



Underside dark fusco-rufous, with yellow^ pubescence; 

 abdomen finely yet distinctly and moderately closely punc- 

 tured. Fourth ventral segment largest, fifth nearly as long as 

 the second, with a broad median lobe extending nearly halfway 

 over the much paler sixth, which is depressed at each side 

 but its central portion is broadly conical and marginated. 



This peculiar ventral structure, together with the broader 

 head and supplementary elytral strife, constitute the important 

 characteristics. 



(?. Length 2^ ; breadth fully \ mm. 



Greymouth {Mr. B. Helms). One from Dr. Sharp's collec- 

 tion, British Museum. 



3484. Sagola occipitalis, sp. n. 



Slender, elongate, subdepressed, nitid ; head and thorax 

 light fusco-rufous, elytra and abdomen flavo-castaneous, legs 

 and antennai fusco-testaceous, these latter rufous near the 

 base ; palpi yellow ; pubescence greyish yellow, elongate, 

 rather thick behind, but without long erect set£e there. 



Head suboblong-oval, not abruptly narrowed anteriorly, 

 very slightly rounded behind the moderately large eyes, with 

 obtuse hind angles ; antennal tubercles nearly flat and sepa- 

 rated by a distinct groove, the frontal channel moderately 

 broad and deep and prolonged nearlj' to the base ; the occipital 

 fovefe very minute, hardly discernible; at each side of tiie 

 base there is an indistinct transverse groove. Thorax 

 slightly longer than broad, rounded and widest at or just 

 before the middle ; discal depression rather small and sub- 

 rotundate, the basal punctures distinct though not large. 



