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covered with punctures broader than those on the clypeus which 

 has six long and very sharp teeth, the lateral lobe is very little 

 rounded or ampliate outwardly ; prothorax convex, serrulate late- 

 rally, and covered with fossulate punctures set irregularly and 

 moderately close to one another, in the centre of the disk there 

 is a very fine hollow line, often indistinct, and reaching from the 

 median part to near the base which is neither inipi-essed nor grooved 

 transversely ; elytra depressed, sub-parallel, very narrowly striate 

 with the stria? closely and deeply punctured ; the intervals are raised, 

 and interrupted by equi-distant, deep, somewhat transverse foveiB of 

 the same width as the interval ; on each side are two lateral carina; 

 parallel to each other ; metasternum punctulate and with a deep 

 longitudinal groove interrupted at middle and reaching from apex to 

 base ; legs set with long black hairs, anterior tibiae quadri-dentate 

 and serrulate on lioth sides ; pygidium broadly punctulate. 



Length 10-14 mm. ; width 5-6^- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester, Namaqualand, 

 Griqualand West, Stellenbosch, Fraserburg, Graham's Town). 

 Bechuanaland (Kanye), Southern Khodesia (Middle Limpopo, 

 Enkeldoorn, Salisbury), Ovampoland (Omrramba). 



The figure and description of S. palcmo, Oliv., agree fairly well 

 with the present species. The habitat given by Olivier is Senegal 

 and Cape of Good Hope. 



ScAEABiEus PARVULUS, Bohem., 

 Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 108. 

 Black, moderately shining ; head with a median denuded longitu- 

 dinal band prolonged in a narrow line as far as the apex of the 

 clypeus, and covered with punctures well defined and not very 

 closely set, while those on the clypeus are smaller, elongate, and 

 very closely set, teeth of the clypeus long, sharp, the lateral lobe 

 nearly straight or hardly ampliate laterally ; prothorax convex, 

 feebly serrulate laterally, and with the anterior angles sharp, not 

 impressed along the base, and covered with deep, round punctures 

 set somewhat closely and leaving a narrow, ill-defined, smooth, 

 longitudinal median line ; elytra plane, a little narrowed behind, 

 deeply punctato-striate, the intervals plane and having one median 

 row of deep, not closely set, punctures ; on each side are two mar- 

 ginal cariniB ; metasternum punctulate laterally, smooth in the 

 centre, and with a median, longitudinal groove slightly interrupted 

 at middle ; legs ])riefly setose, fore tibia? sharply quadri-dentate, and 

 closely serrulate inwardly as well as outwardly l^ehind the digitation ; 

 pygidium deeply but not closely punctured. 



