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long, lateral lobe broad the two front teeth not diveroing. it 

 has underneath a moderately conspicuous vertical spine, and 

 another, also vertical, in the centre of the sinuation ; prothorax serrate 

 laterally, and with a sharp apical spine, basal margin punctulate on 

 each side for half the length and impressed in the middle, upper 

 side finely and distinctly granulate laterally but with the median 

 part deeply punctured ; the said punctures have a small granule ni 

 each interval in the anterior part, but not from middle to base, and 

 there is a longitudinal smooth line reaching from apex to base, and 

 slightly lozenge-shaped in the centre ; elytra a little rounded past the 

 middle, which imparts them a more rounded appearance, broadly 

 striate with the intervals a little convex and having an ill-defined 

 duplicate series of small punctures, the suture is shining and the 

 striiB and intervals are aciculate, the aciculation being more shining 

 than the Imckground ; legs moderately long, intermediate and 

 posterior ones fringed with long, black hairs ; anterior tibiae, strongly 

 quadri- dentate and serrate outwardly from the digitation to the 

 base as well as between the outer teeth, inner side closely crenu- 

 late ; pygidium sub-punctulate ; metasternum not aculeate at apex, 

 deeply and broadly grooved from the apical part to beyond the 

 intermediate coxae, and having a small ovate impression at base. 



Length 27-30 mm. ; width 17-19 mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland. 



The facies of this insect is not so singular as that of S. galenas ; 

 the two median teeth of the clypeus are not so long, nor diverging, 

 neither are they rounded at tip, and they would resemble those of 

 Scarahceus but for the three vertical teeth underneath, which are 

 quite similar to those of S. (jalcnus. 



ScARAB^us CAFFER, Bohem., 



Plate XXXVII., lig 29. 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 169. 

 Black, shining ; head, thorax and legs fringed with black hairs ; 

 head shagreened in the centre and sides, clypeus covered with 

 closely set elongated punctures, teeth long, the two anterior 

 recurved and having underneath at about half the length a small 

 conical tooth and a sharp carina ending above the mouth in a 

 conical tubercle in the middle ; prothorax convex, closely serrate 

 laterally and very closely punctured along the basal margin, very 

 finely shagreened, or more properly, deeply aciculate, and with 

 some moderately deep but very distinct punctures scattered about 

 on the disk, but rarer near the base ; elytra bulging a little past the 



