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its surface being quite smooth except close to the base, where 

 there are a few tubercles ; the margin is thick and well-defined : 

 the epipleur^e of the elytra are very coarsely and strongly punc- 

 tured. The underside is miniitely granulate. The hind tibiae 

 are rather strongly flexxions (perhaps a sexual character) ; the 

 prosternum is not at all carinate. 



An extremely distinct species belonging to the same section of 

 the genus as H. echinatus, Hope. Compared with that insect the 

 following (among others) differences may be noted : general form 

 very much narrower and more elongate ; anterior pi'ocesses of the 

 prothorax much more projected forward making the segment 

 longer ; intermediate expansion of both prothorax and elytra 

 decidedly narrower, but at the same time more sharjDly defined ; 

 the tubercles in the rows on the elytra in general much larger, 

 especially those in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 7th rows, which, 

 however, are very much smaller than those in the 3rd and 5th. 



The South Australian Museum possesses a single specimen, 

 probably taken in South Australia. 



Saragus iNiEQUALis, sp.nov. 



Ovalis ; minus opacus ; ferruginous, capite prothoracisque disco 

 infuscatis ; hoc minute granulate, marginibus reflexis ; elytris 

 valde rugosis, antice tricostatis, interstitiis in parte postica tuber- 

 culatis, tibiis anticis calcare apicali gracili acuminate. 



[Long. 7 lines, lat. 4| lines. 



This species is so closely allied to S. Icevicollis, Fab., that it will 

 be sufficient to add to the above diagnosis an enumeration of its 

 differences from that insect. Its ferruginous color, with only the 

 head and the disc of the pronolum and prosternum darker may 

 not be constant. Its shape is quite distinctive, the elyti'a being 

 considerably longer in proportion to their width than those of 

 Icevicollis, and being uniformly, though very gradually, narrowed 

 from the base to their apical half, which is rapidly conti-acted, the 

 apical part being more pointed than in Icevicollis. The front part 

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