42 Traiisacfions South African Pltilosophical Societi/. [vol. xii. 



SCAEAB^US EUGOSUS, HaUSlll., 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 12. 

 lilig. Magaz., vi., 1807, p. 250. 

 S. convalescens, Wiedem. Zool. Mag., ii., 1823, p. 21. 



Black, sub-opaque ; head punctulate with the intervals l^etween 

 tlie punctures granulose, no median longitudinal smooth line or 

 carina, clypeus covered with elongated, very closely set punctures, 

 teeth sharp, but not long ; prothorax convex, strongly serrulate 

 laterally, and fringed wdth flavescent hairs, base with an ill-defined 

 series of small punctures interrupted in the centre, disk covered with 

 round, shallow, closely set, scar-like punctures the interstices of 

 which are finely granulose ; these punctures disappear near the 

 outer margins, and there is a distinct, median, longitudinal, smooth 

 line reaching from base to apex ; elytra a little attenuate towards 

 the apex, not plane, suture not much gibbose at middle, narrowly 

 striate, striae with a very slender line, intervals with two rows of 

 round, moderately broad, shallow punctures the intervals of which 

 are a little shining, suture also shining, outer margin bi-carinate ; legs 

 moderately slender, clothed with long, fulvous hairs, anterior tibiae 

 strongly quadri-dentate outwardly, and conspicuously serrulate on 

 both sides ; metasternum broadly canaliculate from the apex till 

 near the base in the middle, sides of the groove punctulate ; P3'gi- 

 dium very finely aciculate. 



Length 19 mm. ; width 13 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Malmesbury). 



I have seen two examples only of this rare species. 



SCAEABiEUS FUNEBEIS, Bohem., 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 14. 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 176. 



Black, shining ; head and clypeus covered with closelj* set punc- 

 tures which are more elongate on the clypeus the teeth of which 

 are sharp and long ; prothorax convex, serrulate laterally, basal 

 margin with a series of deep and very closely set punctures, disk 

 foveolato-punctate in the median part, finely granulose laterally 

 with the graimles not closely set, in the middle is a longitudinal 

 smooth line fairly well defined, and occasionally a lateral smooth, 

 more or less round space, there is a narrow impunctate transverse 

 space above the base, the sides and also the clypeus are fringed 

 w^th blackish hairs ; elytra very little narrower at middle than the 

 prothorax, somewhat convex, not much attenuate towards the apex, 



