52 Tramactious South African Philosophical SocicHj. [vol. xii. 



granulation, the greatest part of the base is, however, nearly smooth 

 and opaque, and there is a median lozenge-shaped, smooth, slnnmg, 

 patch prolonged in a smooth hne as far as the apex, a broader line 

 on each side of it also smooth and opaque and reachmg from the 

 middle to a short distance from the apex, and a supra-lateral, trans- 

 verse sub-triangular impression, sometimes granulose, but sometimes 

 also nearlv smooth ; the disk is very little convex, closely denticulate 

 laterally, and the anterior angles are produced in a short but very 

 distinct spine; the posterior margin is carinulate and has a series 

 of verv closely set punctures; elytra plane, with the suture hardly 

 ..ibbose at middle, sub-parallel but distinctly attenuate towards tlie 

 apex, very finelv shagreened, narrowly striate, intervals with a near y 

 obliterated doulDle series of punctures, second and fourth intervals 

 more shining than the others, outer margin distinctly bi-carmate ; 

 pvgidium punctulate and slightly granulose ; intermediate and 

 posterior tibia, fringed with not very long black hairs anterior tibi^ 

 armed outwardly with three long and sharp spines and a small basal 

 one, not serrulate outwardly, very sharply and distinctly cannate 

 inwardlv, the carina scooped out m a line with the third outer tooth 

 and armed with a sharp spine at base ; metasternum with a deep 

 elongate excavation between the intermediate tibiD. a fine hne 

 reaching from there to the apex, and- another similar line reaching 

 the base ; sides punctulate and pilose. 



Length 33-41 mm. ; width 20-24 mm. , , o .i 



Hah Natal (Durban), Transvaal (Rustenburg) Sou hern 



Ehodesia (Salisbury, Victoria Falls), Mozambique (Delagoa Lay). 



Gerstaeker considers this species as a variety of S lama>la, 



McLeav, from Senegal, Nubia, and Guinea. Kolbe does not mention 



it in his enumeration of the Scarahceus from East Africa. 



SCAEAB.EUS I'EODIGIOSUS, Erichs., 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 25. 

 Wiegm. Arch., 1843, i., p. 231. 

 Black, moderately shining ; head and clypeus covered with deep 

 elongate punctures somewhat striolate in the anterior part, teeth o 

 the clvT^eus lon^ sharp, central part of the head with a very short 

 '^l^^^i:::'.cuiX but not always distmct ; the hairs frmging 

 the head are brown ; prothorax not much convex, very closely serrate 

 laterally with the anterior angle produced in a sharp, short spine, 

 basal margin carinate and with a narrow supra-basal linear impres- 

 sfon disk covered with closely set granules leaving a smooth, median 

 le^ge-shaped space continued as far as the apex in a smooth hne 



