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fortiter confertim punctata, disco niveo trivittato ; scutello ovato, dense 

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

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

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

 squamulosis. Long. 2f 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 be due to abrasion. 



Saginesis. 

 (Hyperinae.) 



Caput exsertum ; rostrum modice elongatum, arcuatum, basin 

 versus angustius, longitudinaliter carinulatum ; scrobes prseme- 

 diana?, obliquae, infra oculos evanescentes. Scapus sensim in- 

 crassatus ; funiculus 7 -articulatus, articulis duobus basalibus 

 longiusculis, cseteris subturbinatis ; 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 ; tibia arcuatae. Coetera ut in Hypera. 

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

 ferentiated principally by the scrobes ; Eurychirus, with scrobes 

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



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

 mulis grisescentibus, in elytris sparse maculatim albido variis, sat dense 

 tecta ; rostro capite duplo longiore, transversim subvage squamuloso ; 

 antennis subferrugineis ; funiculo articulis duobus basalibus longitu- 

 dine sequalibus ; prothorace antice multo angustiore, utrinque ro- 

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

 ribus, supra regulariter modice convexis ; seriatim punctatis, punctis 

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



Hab. Am. 



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



