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double row of shallow, somew^hat indistinct punctures on each, 

 posterior part with erect, long black hairs springing from the punc- 

 tures ; legs moderately slender, intermediate and posterior tibiye 

 ciliated with long, black hairs, anterior ones sharply quadri-dentate 

 with the basal tooth set close to the base, slightly serrate below and 

 between the digitation, inner side dilated, carinate from the apex to 

 half the length, and not serrulate ; metasternum produced at apex, 

 in a distinct, acutely tuberculiform process, broadly grooved longi- 

 tudinally, the groove is interrupted at middle and the posterior part 

 is a little broader and shallower, the sides are closely punctured as 

 far as the median groove. 



Length 19 mm. ; width 12 mm. 



I have seen one example only (a female) of this very distinct 

 species, the exact habitat of which is not known to me. 



ScAEAB^us suEi, Hausm., 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 10. 



Illig. Magaz., vi., 1807, p. 2U. 



S. caffer., Serv. Encycl. Meth. v% * ^.'v'u a?'^ 



S. hottentotus, McLeay, Hor. Entom., i., 2, p. 498. 



Black, nearly opaque on the upper part ; head covered with 

 elongate punctures less closely set on the head than on the clypeus 

 where they merge slightly into one another at apex, teeth moderately 

 long, sharp, lateral lobe a little ampliate and diagonal laterally, 

 median apical part of the head sub-carinate as far as the median 

 part of the clypeus, the carina a little more shining than the rest of 

 the surface, and nearly smooth, sides ciliated with moderately long 

 black hairs ; prothorax convex, finely aciculate, covered w^ith 

 scattered punctures bearing a minute, brownish black seta, and 

 having a smooth, median longitudinal, nearly smooth space reaching 

 from the apex to a short distance from the base, and a diagonal one 

 beginning on each side of the basal part of the median line and 

 reaching nearly the median part ; the outer sides are distinctly 

 serrulate, and the base has a series of very closely set, deep punctures, 

 every one of which bears a rigid seta, the base itself is angular in the 

 centre ; elytra sub-parallel, but a little attenuate towards the apex 

 and with the humeral angle very sloping, not striate but with the 

 intervals sub-tectiform and having on the sharp edge a very indis- 

 tinct series of punctures which, in some examples, are found on the 

 sides of the intervals and nearlv where the stria should be ; the whole 



