102 ]\Ir. F. r. Pasooc on Additions to 



Allied to S. si')nj)Iex''''j Hope, but shorter and more convex, 

 Avith a narrow margin to the elyti-a, and hispid tibiae. The 

 former species has the clytval mariiins marked witli delicate 

 transverse folds. 



Saragiis confirmatus. 



S. obovatxis, niger, subopacus ; clytris singulatim qnadricostatis, 

 costis apicem versus cvaneseciitibus, margiuibus obsolctis. 



JIab. West Australia (Mr. Duboulay). 



l\ather broadly obovate, black, slii::htly opaqne ; head finely 

 punctured, broad in front, the clypeus not emar<;inate ; pro- 

 thorax very minutely punctm*ed, the disk slightly convex, 

 distinctly separated from the margins, which arc 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 

 disa]:)pcaring 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 punctui'ed; tibiae minutely spinulous; tarsi slightly 

 ferruginous ; antennas blackish, the last joint nearly circular, 

 ferruginous. Length 6 lines. 



NaiTOwer than the last [asjjerijjes)^ but at tlie 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. 



Adelium f geminatum. 



A. fusco-cupreum, subnitidum ; prothorace pone medium valde in- 

 curvato, supra canalicidato ; clytris iuterrupte striatis. 



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



Dark copper-brown, faintly nitid ; head finely and in-egu- 

 larly punctured, the clypeus narrow anteriorly and rather 

 strongly cmarginate ; prothorax transverse, irregular above, 

 finely and unequally punctured, with a slender longitudinal 

 groove, the sides strongly rounded, and behind the middle 

 deeply inem*ved and terminating in a sharp angle ; elytra 

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

 ders, inteiTuptedly striate, the alternate intervals of the dorsal 



• This species appears to me to be the same as S. carinatus, De Br., of 

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

 + Kirby, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 420, 



