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little distance from the apex, a line of small tubercles towards 

 the foliuceous margins, which are moderately broad, but ex- 

 panded inwardly near the shoulders ; body beneath and legs 

 opaque rusty-brown clothed with fine scattered hairs. Length 

 12 lines. 



A very distinct species, having no similitude to any of its 

 congeners. Unfortunately, it is not quite perfect as to its an- 

 tenna; and anterior tarsi ; and their reproduction in the figure 

 must be taken with a slight reservation. In fresh examples, 

 it is very likely the flattened hairs (they are not true scales) 

 are more numerous than I have represented. 



Saragus Umhatus. 



S. late ovalis, modice convexus, uigreseeus vix nitidus; elytris 

 leviter seriatim punctatis, interstitiis alternis paulo elevatis, 

 latera versus scnsim minus conspicuis. 



Hab. Melbourne ; Gawler. 



Broadly oval, moderately convex, brownish black, scarcely 

 nitid ; head and prothorax finely punctured, the latter slightly 

 convex, the basal fovese nearly obsolete, the anterior angles 

 rounded, posterior produced and recurved, foliaceous margins 

 moderately broad, a little reflexed, and edged with a thickened 

 border ; scutellum transversely triangular ; elytra not broader 

 than the prothorax, finely seriate-punctate, the intermediate 

 spaces between the rows raised, three or four on each side the 

 suture the most so, those towards the sides gradually disap- 

 pearing, foliaceous margins narrowing gradually posteriorly, 

 transversely corrugated ; body beneath and legs dark chestnut- 

 brown, a little glossy, the abdominal segments longitudinally 

 corrugated ; antennse ferruginous brown. Length 7 lines. 



In outline resembling 8. simplex, Hope { = 8. asidoides, 

 Pasc), but differing in the sculpture of the elytra, &c. Dr. 

 Howitt sends me another 8aragus, from Port Augusta in 

 South Australia, unfortunately witliout head or legs, but cer- 

 tainly one of the most remarkable of the subfamily. 8. aus- 

 tralis, Bois., seems to be not the same described under that 

 name by the Marquis de Breme. 



Dr. Howitt has sent me not less than four new genera of 

 that handsome and almost exclusively Australian* subfamily, 

 Cyphaleinee. As a considerable addition has now l)cen made 



* The only exception is a Sumati-an insect, -wliicli I have recently 

 characterized under the name oi Artades nif/ritarsvi (Proc. Eut. Soc.lSOS, 

 p. xii). It will be more fully described and figured hereafter. 



