BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 875 



noticeable from beneath) divides them. The general style of 

 puncturation on the underside consists of well-defined coarse 

 punctures, each puncture containing a kind of granule on which 

 is a golden seta ; on the lateral parts of the presternum the 

 granules protrude, giving the appearance of tubercles ; on the rest 

 of the undersurface the punctures are rather feeble and sparing 

 down the middle becoming deeper towards the sides ; those about 

 the sides of the sterna are the best developed, and show the 

 golden setae most conspicuously. The legs are punctured and 

 clothed with short inconspicuous hairs ; the tibise are straight, the 

 anterior having a strong tooth externally, near the apex, in 

 addition to the large robust apical spur. The prosternal process is 

 horizontal and slightly prominent behind ; it continues backward 

 beyond the hind level of the coxee and its hinder declivity is 

 almost perpendicular. 



This species must be somewhat closely allied to <S. Duhoulayi, 

 Bates, but besides being much smaller differs inter alia in the 

 elytral sculpture, which is devoid of any distinct costee, the 

 intervals between tubercle and tubercle in each row being quite 

 continuous with those between the rows of tubercles. 



I obtained two specimens of this insect dead, but very little 

 damaged, in a spider's web under a log about twenty miles north 

 of Port Lincoln. 



