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Prothorax smooth, sparsely punctulate, outer margin 

 imicronato at the base; anterior tibiae not mucronate 

 inwardly at tip, but serrulate outwardly; posterior tibias 

 distinctly sinuate chcmis. 



B". Base of prothorax punctate. 



Prothorax smooth, sparingly punctulate ; anterior tibii« 

 nuicronate at tip, inwardly and strongly seri'ate ; posterior 

 tibiic not sinuate hottentorum. 



ScARAB^us cupREUs, Castelii., 

 . Plate XXXI., fig. 6, and Plate XXXVII., tig 2. 

 Hist. Natuf., ii., 1840, p. 65. 



.S. wruijiiiosKs, King., Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 650. 



S. cujjreus, Bohem., Insect. Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 163. 



Shining coppery bronze with the suture and the lateral cariniB of 

 elytra greenish ; under side and legs dark bronze-green ; head covered 

 with very closely set, deep, elongate punctures, clypeus six-dentate, 

 the teeth well defined but not quite acute, sides fringed with fulvous 

 hairs ; prothorax moderately convex, closely and very distinctly 

 serrate laterally, grooved along the posterior margin, covered with 

 very closely set granules, and having in the middle a narrow^ smooth 

 longitudinal space reaching from the base to the median part ; elytra 

 convex at about the median part, a little ampliated laterally behind 

 the humeral part, very finely striate, the striae are smooth and 

 the intervals are very slightly shagreened and have each two 

 rows of minute punctures ; the outer margin is distinctly tliree- 

 carinate ; pectus clothed with fulvous hairs, metasternum with two 

 deep ovate impressions in the centre ; legs rugoso-punctate, anterior 

 tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, and with a rudimentary basal tooth, 

 carinate inwardly, and not serrulate outwardly ; pygidium very 

 closely punctured. 



Length 29-38 mm. ; width 17-23 mm. 



Hab. Zambesia (Victoria Falls, Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn) ; Trans- 

 vaal (Lydenburg). 



ScARAB^us METALLicus, Bohem., 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 3. 



Insect. Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 164. 



Dull coppery bronze on the upper side, JDronze black underneath, 



legs also bronze-black ; head covered with very closely set, deep, 



elongate punctures, teeth of the clypeus sharp; prothorax depressed, 



closely serrate laterally and with a sharp tooth at the anterior angle, 



