58 Tran-sactions Soutli African Fhilosopliical Socict)j. [vol. xii. 



SCAEAB^US GALENUS, Westw., 



Plate XXX., fig. 8; Plate XXXVII., fig. 28. 

 Tmns. Entoni. Soc, iv., 1847, p. 226, pi. xvii., fig. 1 ; Lacord., 

 Gener. Atlas, pi. xxv., fig. 5. 



S. 2JCiracloxits, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 170. 



S.westtvoodi, Hav. Coleopt., Heft, v., 1869, p. 95. 



Black, sub-opaque with the sutuie of elytra shining ; head 



covered with deep, nearly reticulate punctures which do not 



become much elongated on the edge of the clypeus the two front 



teeth of which are very elongate and slightly diverging, broadly 



scooped, rounded at tip, and have underneath a vertical apical very 



conspicuous spine, and a smaller one, also vertical, in the centre 



of the sinuation ; prothorax convex, very deeply emarginate at 



apex on each side, and with a conspicuous, sharp spine on the 



anterior angle, lateral part serrulate for a quarter of the length, 



carinate from there to the posterior angle, and with a series 



of punctures bearing a small fascicle of three or four erect hairs ; 



the basal margin is slightly carinate and has a series of more 



closely set setigerous punctures ; it is shghtly punctured on 



the disk, the punctures are not closely set and disappear 



along the base, and there is also a narrow median longitudinal 



space reaching from base to apex without any puncture ; elytra 



slightly attenuate from base to apex, finely striate, the striae deep, 



the intervals nearly but not quite plane, faintly aciculate, and each 



with a double series of small punctures, sutural part convex at 



middle, outer margin with only one supra-marginal carina, which 



begins at a long distance from the base ; legs slender, intermediate 



and posterior tibiae very distinctly bi-dentate outwardly, anterior 



ones rugose, nearly foveolate on the upper side, strongly quadri- 



dentate outwardly, the basal tooth is, however, smaller than the one 



following, the space between the penultimate and the last one is 



much greater than between the two preceding, the penultimate one 



has a vertical tooth in the centre of the upper side, the outer edge 



is serrate, the inner part is very conspicuously crenulate, strongly 



niucronate at tip, and has a sharp, incurved spine under the second 



outer tooth, the tibia itself is inflexed in the middle, and there is an 



incurved spine in the upper apical part of the femora which are 



not deeply grooved and have the upper edge of the grooves serrulate 



for half the length ; metasternum hardly aculeate at apex, and 



having an elongate median impression between the intermediate 



femora, and a shorter and shallower one at base ; pygidium im- 



punctate. 



