1900.] Catalogue of the Colcojitcra of Soutli Africa. 43 



iind a little unipliated at inicldle, very distinctly striate with the sti'ia' 

 faintly punctured, the intervals are raised, and have each a row of 

 foveate punctures nearly as broad as the interval, and closely set, 

 outer margin very closely bi-cai'inate ; under side pilose except on 

 abdomen ; intermediate and posterior tibicO fringed with moderately 

 dense black hairs, anterior tibia; quadri-dentate and serrulate on both 

 sides ; metasternum punctulate and having a very narrow median 

 groove extending for nearly all the length and ending in an ovate 

 impression at apex. 



Length 14-17 mm. ; width 9-11 nun. 



Hab.. Bechuanaland (Kanj'e), Transvaal (Lydenburg), Zani))esia 

 (Buluwayo), Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



SCAKABiEUS INTEKSTITIALIS, Bohem., 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 171. 



"Black, moderately shining; head finely, closely and rugosely 

 punctate, almost smooth behind, deeply punctate on each side, 

 with six acute teeth in front ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as 

 long, black, modei'ately shining, outer sides finely crentilate, and 

 sparely fringed wdth black hairs, moderately convex, closely l)ut 

 not strongly shagreened and having a few scattered punctures more 

 closely set in front and on the sides, and rarer in the middle ; elytra 

 a little ampliate behind the base and slightly narrowed from there 

 towards the apex, finely but distinctly striate with the intervals plane 

 and covered with moderately close and somewhat deep punctures ; 

 anterior tibia^ crenulate on each side, sharply quadri-dentate out- 

 wardly, basal tooth small, posterior tibiae long, bi-arcuate, fringed 

 with very long, dense black hairs, and having no trace of sub-apical 

 outer teeth." 



Length 17 mm. ; width 10^ mm. 



Hab. Interior of Caffraria, teste Bohem. 



The only example of this species I have seen is Boheman's type. 

 It is easily distinguished by the long, sinuate and arcuate posterior 

 tibite, which resemble those of S. cbcnm:. It is nearly similar in size 

 and facies to S. funcbris. 



ScAKAB.EUs AMBiGUus, Bohem., 

 Plate XXX VIL, fig. 13. 

 Insect. Cafl'r., ii., p. 173. 



Black, opaque ; head very closely punctured, the punctures are 

 more elongated on the clypeus the teeth of which are fairly long 



