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was identical with .S'. lucid ul us, Bohem., but Mr. \Yaterhouse, who 

 kindly compared my typical example with his type, writes : "Very 

 near my S. andcrscni, l)ut larger. My species has the interstices of 

 the elytra much broken up by pits or punctures, and has much 

 fewer punctures on the pygidium." 



Length 10 mm. 



Hah. Lake Nyassa. 



In spite of this I would not be at all surprised if N. ojidcrseni were 

 to prove identical with S. lucidulus. Its habitat, Lake Nyassa, may 

 also prove to be erroneous. Andersson, not Andersen, collected in 

 and a/round Damaraland and Ovampoland and also in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Lake N'Gami ; he certainly never went to Lake 

 Nyassa. 



SCAEAB^US RUBEIPENNIS, Boll., 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 7. 

 Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 107. 



Black, shining, palpi and all the joints of antennae fiavous, and 

 elytra light brick-red ; head wdth a median, narrow, elongated smooth 

 space, very closely punctured, clypeus more closely punctured, and 

 somewhat striolate in the anterior part, clypeus fringed with long, 

 fiavescent hairs, teeth long, sharp, and as in the two preceding 

 species ; prothorax not much convex, strongly and closely serrulate 

 laterally, and having a narrow supra-basal, closely punctulate line, 

 anterior angle produced in a very distinct, sharp tooth ; it is covered 

 with moderately closely set punctures, more separated from each 

 other in the central part where there is a nearly impunctate longi- 

 tudinal space, as well as a not very distinct, rounded, supra-basal 

 one on each side, the outer sides have a fringe of very long, 

 fiavescent hairs ; elytra sub-parallel, plane, distinctly striate with the 

 intervals smooth and slightly convex, the outer margin is bi-carinate, 

 and the suture is black ; legs long, intermediate tibiae coarctate near 

 the apex above the insertion of the tarsus, and produced from there 

 in an elongato-quadrate slightly dilated process in both sexes ; 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi fringed with very long, black hairs, anterior 

 ones with four strong teeth, and distinctly serrate outwardly, 

 serrulate and deeply emarginate inwardly under the second tooth, 

 and fringed with long hairs ; metasternum with a median narrow 

 groove culminating behind in a small elongate impression a little 

 wider than the groove itself ; pygidium closely punctulate. 



Length 17 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Ilab. Damaraland (Gonab). 



