44 TrdiinacticDi.s Soiitli African riiihiHophical Socicti/. [vol. xii. 



and sharp; prothovax serrate laterally, convex, fringed with slightly 

 fulvous hairs, liasal margin with a very distinct row of very closely 

 set setigerous punctures, disk finely aciculate and with fine, mode- 

 rately deep punctures not set very close to each other, and almost 

 wanting along the base which is aculeate at middle, and also hardly 

 noticeable along the outer margins, in the centre there is a smooth, 

 faintly raised line reaching from base to apex ; elytra hardly convex, 

 suture gibbose at middle and shining, the rest of the surface is 

 opaque, they are faintly striate with the intervals nearly plane and 

 very finely shagreened, the outer margin has two carinas very close 

 to each other ; tibiae moderately villose, anterior quadri-dentate, 

 serrate below the digitation, and finely serrulate inwardly ; meta- 

 sternum punctulate laterally and having a median longitudinal 

 groove reaching from near the apex to beyond the median part, 

 and an elongate impression behind ; pygidium very finely aciculate. 



Length 17-20 mm. 



Some examples from Estcourt (Natal) differ a little from the 

 typical examples in having hardly any trace of the median 

 smooth line on the prothorax, the elytra are less opaque, and 

 the striae are filled with minute, elongate punctures, but I cannot 

 detect any other difference, and the shape of the genital armature 

 of the (J is identical with that of the type form. 



Ilab. Cape Colony (Cape Town), Transvaal (Potchefstroom), 

 Natal (Estcourt). 



SCARAB.EUS HOTTENTORUM, U. SpeC, 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 15. 

 Black, shining; head and. clypeus covered with elongated punc- 

 tures, teeth of the clypeus long, sharp, club of antennae brownish ; 

 prothorax convex, declivous in front, strongly serrulate laterally 

 where it is fringed with sub-fulvescent hairs, base aculeate in the 

 middle, and having a series of small but deep and closely set, 

 setiferous punctures, the disk is very finely aciculate and has some 

 small scattered punctures which disappear along the outer margins ; 

 elytra attenuate from the middle towards the apex, gibbose at 

 middle along the suture, very finely striate, the striae consisting of 

 a very slender, not depressed line, intervals plane, nearly smooth, 

 but with a very faint trace of a double series of punctures, outer 

 margin with only one carina ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 fringed with somewhat long, slightly brown hairs, anterior tibiae 

 strongly quadri-dentate, mucronate inwardly at tip, and very con- 

 spicuously but not closely serrate inwardly, some of the teeth of the 

 serration are longer than the others, and the outer part is serrulate ; 



