872 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



This species must be allied to <S. hvunnipes, Breme, and must 

 difiler from it inter alia in having only a small spine at the apex 

 of the anterior tibife ; f lom S. hrunnipennis it diffei'S inter alia 

 in having its thorax move strongly punctured, and the interstices 

 of its elytra more or less convex. Mr. Macleay tells me that it 

 is distinct from everything known to him. 



Sleaford Buy, near Port Lincoln. 



S. ASPERIPES, Base. 



An insect which I have taken several times at Port Lincoln 

 agrees with Mr. Macleay's ty[)e (the Hon. gentleman informs me) 

 of this species, and corresponds very well with Mr. Pascoe's 

 description, but it should be noted that it is exceptional for the 

 intermediate expansion of the elytra not to l)e marked with 

 transverse folds. .*?. asperipes has much the appeai\ance of 

 a Phospfiuga. 



S. SATKLLES, Sp.nov. 



Late ovalis ; sat convexus ; minus nitidus ; piceo-niger, mar- 

 ginibus dilutioribus ; capite subrugulose sat fortiter, prothorace 

 duplo (subtiliter et subtilissime), elytris vix seriatim minus 

 fortiter nee crebre, punctulatis ; his obsolete tricostatis. 



[Long. 7f lines, lat. 5 lines (vix). 



The head is rugosely, confusedly, and closely punctulate with 

 very fine and rather coarse punctures intermingled. The pro- 

 thorax is twice and a half as wide as it is long down the middle, 

 its base a little more than twice as wide as its front margin ; its 

 intermediate expansion is on either side about a third the width 

 of the disc, and is subhorizontal, nearly flat, and of somewhat even 

 width thioughout its length ; its true margin is well-defined, 

 thick, shining, and not erect ; the lateral outline is well rounded, 

 the greatest width of the segment being just in front of the base ; 

 its surface is punctured on a uniform system, the puncturation 

 is strongei and rougher close to the lateral edges (except near the 



