lUOO. 1 ('(itidixjiic of tilt' L'olcojitcid (>i South Afriai. 45 



nielatlioi'ax cIosel\ [)unctured on tlie sides, soinewliat sharp at tlie l)ase, 

 grooved longitudinally from apex to base, the sides of the groove are 

 raised in the anterior part only ; the pygidium is hardly aciculate. 



Length 22-26 mm. : width lo-l(>mm. 



Ilab. Cape Colony (Nama(pialand, Barkly West). 



ScARABJSus SAviGNYi, McLeay, 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 16. 

 Hor. Entom., i., 2, 1821, p. 508.. 



S. trausvcrsus, Casteln., Hist. Nat., ii., p. 65. 



Black, shining ; basal part of the head nearly impunctate, clypeuft 

 covered with closeh- set, elongate punctures, teeth not long, and 

 moderately sharp; prothorax very convex, slightly seiTulate laterally, 

 basal margin impunctate and not impressed, disk impunctate and 

 with two sub-diagonal shallow foveae not quite in the centre, and a 

 faint, supra-lateral impression on each side, which might, however, be 

 accidental ; elytra a little attenuate from the shoulder to the apex, 

 obsoletely striate with the intervals plane, smooth and very nearly 

 impunctate, outer margin closely bi-carinate, suture sub-gibbose at 

 middle ; legs fringed with short, black hairs ; anterior tibite with 

 three moderately long outer teeth, and a small basal one, inner 

 l)art with a sharp ridge on the upper side ending in a short spine at 

 apex, smooth in the anterior part and crenulate at base ; meta- 

 sternum compressed apically and having a slight canaliculation 

 beginning almost at the apex and ending in a shallow, triangular 

 basal impression ; pygidium impunctate. The shape of the genital 

 armature is very nearly identical with that of .S'. Jtottciitoniiii, and 

 the two species are undoubtedly very closely connected, the differ- 

 ence between the two consisting in the absence of the two foveas 

 on the disk, as well as the quadri-dentate tibiae, which are very 

 conspicuously crenulate inwardly and strongly mucronate at tip in 

 N. hottcntorum. 



Length 29 mm. ; width 17-18 mm. 



Hill). Cape Colony (Caledon, Tulbagh, Knysna, Graham's Town). 



ScARAB^us coxvEXUs, Hausm., 



Plate XXXVIL, fig. 17. 



Illig. Mag., vi., 1807, p. 241). 



S. Icevls, Thunb., Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 408. 



Black, shining equally on prothorax and elytra; head nearly smooth 



in the middle of vertex, clypeus with very closely set, elongate punc- 



