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While standing nearest to H. perroni, Bois., in my 

 table/ 4 ) it is a much larger, wider, and more convex insect, with 

 a smoother surface. Its general form is nearer that of 

 Sympetes orbicularis, Breme. Type in author's collection. 



Saragus substriatus, n. sp. 



Ovate; opaque brownish-black; antennae and tarsi piceous. 



Head — Epistoma rounded, reflexed, but not angulate at 

 sides, the limiting suture arcuate, subobsolete in the middle, 

 very minutely punctate, eyes widely separated, antennae 

 moderately enlarged at apex, joint 3 as long as 4-5 combined, 

 4-7 obconic, 8-10 nearly round, 11 oval. Prothorax 4x9 mm., 

 widest at base, arcuate-emarginate at apex ; anterior angles 

 widely rounded, base strongly bisinuate, posterior angles acute 

 and strongly produced; sides arcuately widened to base; ex- 

 planate margins wide, subhorizontal, lateral reflexed border 

 very thin; disc smooth, with a faint central depressed line. 

 Scutellum transverse, triangular. Elytra as wide as prothorax 

 at base, ovate and convex, shoulders obsolete, horizontal lateral 

 margin moderately wide, but narrowed at apex, extreme border 

 narrowly reflexed; with seventeen thin, somewhat erratic, 

 lines of small punctures, forming here and there distinct striae; 

 the seventeenth, or lateral, row containing large punctures 

 continuous to the apex ; the other rows becoming obliterated 

 at base and apex, and a little irregular at base ; intervals 

 everywhere quite flat, the first, fifth, ninth, and thirteenth 

 distinctly wider than the rest; prosternum convex, faintly 

 granulose at sides ; metasternum finely rugose. A hdomen finely 

 and densely striolate, epipleurae smooth. Dimensions — 

 17 x 10 mm. 



Hab. — Upper Hunter. 



A single specimen (female [?]) in the Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, is intermediate in form and sculpture between Icevis, 

 Macl., and geminatus, Macl. From the former it can be dis- 

 tinguished by (1) the distinct lines of punctures on the elytra, 

 and (2) the horizontal explanate margins of prothorax with 

 thin border. From geminatus, Macl., it is separated by its 

 quite flat elytral intervals. I found S. geminatus, Macl., very 

 common at Guyra, New South Wales, in December, 1910. Its 

 locality is also given as "Upper Hunter" by Macleay. Type in 

 Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Onosterrhus kennedyi, n. sp. 

 Widely obovate, very convex ; brown, with patches of short 

 squamose clothing. 



(4)Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1910, p. 94. 



