54 Transactions Souili African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



sharply carinate inwardly, but not serrulate on either side ; pectus 

 clothed with black hairs, metasternum with a broad groove beginning 

 near the apex and ending at a very short distance behind the inter- 

 mediate coxffi, no posterior impression, only a faint longitudinal line. 



Length 24-28 mm. ; width 16-18 mm. 



Hal). Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Wor- 

 cester, Eobertson, Tulbagh.) 



ScARAB.EUS CLEEicus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 167. 



Very closely aUied to S. boncllii, and it seems to take its place in 

 the northern part of South Africa. It is, however, not so robust, and 

 the elytra are a little more parallel ; it is also more shining, but the 

 sculpture of the prothorax is different ; the granulation is finer and 

 more closely set, and instead of there being a broadly triangular 

 smooth space at base, the said space is covered with closely set 

 punctures leaving only a narrow, longitudinal smooth band reaching 

 from the base to the median part, and including a fine depressed 

 line; the intervals of the elytra are finely but very distinctly 

 shagreened instead of being aciculate, and the double series of 

 punctures are lost in the shagreened surface ; the legs and pygidium 

 are identical, but the metasternum instead of a long, broad groove has 

 only a round, moderately deep impression between the intermediate 

 coxa? ; the head has no trace of a median tubercle. 



Length 25-26 mm. ; width 15-16 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Pretoria). 



ScAEAB.i:us NiGKO-^NEUs, Bolicm., 

 Plate XXXVIL, fig. 27. 

 Insect. Caffr., u., p. 165. 

 Black, with a faint greenish-bronze tinge turning to bronze green 

 in some examples ; head covered with deep, elongate, almost lozenge- 

 shaped punctures very closely set, median part of the head with a 

 slight, sub -conical protuberance ; prothorax strongly serrate laterally 

 with the teeth stouter from the anterior angle to past the median 

 part, basal margin with a transverse narrow impression not reaching 

 the outer angle ; it is convex and very closely punctato-foveolate 

 with the intervals finely granulose except in the median part, and 

 has a narrow, smooth, longitudinal line reaching from base to apex 

 and a small diagonal smooth patch on each side, often nearly 

 obliterated, and situated at a short distance from the base ; elytra 



