Oenera and Species of Coleoptera. 4G5 



Sj/ynj^etes Macleay'i. 



S. lato ovatiis, valde dopressus, latissimo marginatus, fuscus ; olytris con- 

 fertiiu puiictulatis, singulis subtrilineatis. 



Hah. Australia. 



Broadly and almost elliptically ovato, and very much dopros8(!d, dark 

 brown, the margins paler, somewhat shinin;'-; clypeus broad, emarga- 

 uate at the apex, and hidinji- the lip; prothorax finely punctured, the 

 disk at the base scarcely more than a third of the ^vidtll ; scutellum 

 broadly triangular ; elj-tra with rather small punctures, sharply raised 

 along the suture, each elytron with three indistinct lines, the margins 

 nearly flat ; body beneath and legs dull reddish brown, the margins of 

 the prothorax and elytra finely punctured. Length 12 lines. 



Sciragiis* magister. 



S. elliptico-ovatus, impunctatus, uiger, nitidus ; prothoraco elytrisque sat 

 fortiter marginatis. 



Hah. Queensland. 



Elliptic-ovate, black and shining, very smooth and impunctate ; 

 clypeus transverse, gradually rounded from the antennaiy orbits ; pro- 

 thorax rather narrowly emarginate at the apex, the disk moderately 

 convex, the margin about one-sixth of the breadth of the disk at its 

 widest part ; elytra convex, slightly raised into a line posteriorly at the 

 suture, the margins narrower than those of the prothorax ; body be- 

 neath glossy black, the abdomen finely corrugated ; femora highly 

 polished ; tibiae and tarsi with fulvous hairs, the latter and the antenna} 

 ferruginous. Length 9 lines. 



As regards sculpture and outline this species will come into the 

 same category of the genus as S. hriinnipes, De Br. ; but it is much 

 larger, and at once differs in the entire absence of punctation. 



Saragus asidoides. 



S. elliptico-ovatus, niger, opacus ; prothorace lateribus dilatato, subtiliter 

 et confertissime punctulato ; elytris lineato-punctatis. 



Hah. South Australia (Adelaide). 



Elliptic-ovate, black, opake ; clypeus slightly produced and truncate 

 in front -, head finely punctured ; prothorax minutely and very closely 

 punctured, rather narrowly emarginate at the apex, the disk flattish 

 and passing gradually into the margin on each side, shining ; elytra 

 flattish at the base, more convex posteriorly, with small punctures in 

 slightly irregular lines, the margin very distinct at the slioulders, but 

 gradually narrowing to the apex, where it nearly disappeai*s ; body 

 beneath and legs black, slightly nitid; the latter and antenna? witli a 

 thin ferruginous pubescence. Length 7 lines. 



Something like Asida depressa, Sol., but more convex. The second 

 *" Erichson, Wieg. Arch. 1842, i. \i. 171 ; Lacordairc, Genera, t. p, 318. 



