•152 MU. r. 1'. I'ASCOE ON the CUItCULIONIDiE. 



fortiter confex-tim punctate, disco niveo trivittato ; sciitello ovato, dense 

 niveo-squamoso ; elytris striato-puactatis, punctis majusculis, subqua- 

 dratis, interstitiis convexis, vitta suturali Integra, vittisque quatuor late- 

 ralibus plus minusve abbreviatis ; corpore infra sat dense, pcdibus niveo- 

 squamulosis. Long. 2| lin. 

 Hab. Australia. 



The same narrowly obovate outline and general coloration 

 characterize this as well as the other two species of the genus ; 

 but, whilst in them the sculpture is almost entirely masked by 

 the more densely set scales, in the species before us they are so 

 sparse as to appear to the naked eye, except when they are con- 

 densed to form the stripes, to be absent. The stripes are much 

 more narrow and sharply limited, the sutural one forming a con- 

 tinuous line with the intermediate stripe on the prothorax ; the 

 four side-stripes are found on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth 

 interstices, counting from the suture. The denuded patch on the 

 elytra of P. scenicus* I find to bo due to abrasion. 



Saginesis. 

 (Hyperinao.) 



Caput exsertum ; rostrum modice elongatura, arcuatum, basin 

 versus angustius, longitudinaliter carinulatum ; aerobes pra3me- 

 diana), obliqua), infra oculos evanescentes. Scapus sensim in- 

 crassatus ; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulis duobus basalibus 

 longiuseulis, ceteris subturbiuatis ; clava adnata, oblongo-ovalis. 

 Oculi transversi, ovales, antice approximate Prothorax sub- 

 transversus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Scutellum parvum. Elytra 

 ampliata, humeris rotundatis. Pedes breviusculi ; femora in- 

 crassata ; tihice arcuatae. Ooetera ut in Uypera. 

 The habit of this genus is that of JELypera, from which it is dif- 

 ferentiated principally by the scrobes ; JEurychirus, with scrobes 

 of the same character, has long legs and broad tarsi. 



Saginesis latipennis. (PI. X. fig. 4.) S. late ovata, fusca, squa- 



mulis grisesccntibus, in elytris sparse maculatiin albido variis, sat dense 



tecta ; rostro capite duplo longiore, transversini subvagc squamuloso ; 



antennis subferrugineis ; funiculo articulis duobus basalibus longitu- 



dine scqualibus ; prothorace antice raulto angustiore, jatrinque ro- 



tundato, dorso albido bivittato ; elytris basi prothorace duplo latio- 



ribus, supra regulariter modice convexis j seriatim puuctatis, punctis 



oblongis j corpore infra pedibusque fusco-nebulosis. Long. 4 lin. 



Hob. Aru. 



* Liim. Journ. Zool. vol. x. (1870), p. 463. 



