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bi-dentate outwardly and having two apical spurs; the posterior 

 ones are arcuate and very distinctly serrate on either side; tarsi 

 short, triangular, spinosc on each side, the outer spine longer and 

 more robust than the inner one ; coxie slightly diagonal ; meta- 

 sternum broad, divided from the mesosternum by a sharp carina ; 

 no sexual difference. 



The habitat of the only species inekided in tliis genus seems 

 restricted to the extreme south-eastern part of the Cape Colony. 



CiRCELLiuM BACCHUS, Fabr., 



Plate XXXVIII., tig. i. 



Spec. Ins., i., p. 32. 



C. licmisplucricus, Pall. Icon., p. 20, pi. B., tig. 23. 



C. li/ceus, Westw., Brit. Cyclop., ii., p. 55. 



C. bacchus Reiche., Ann. Franc, 1842, p. 81, pi. v., tig. 4. 



Black, shining ; head very broad, gena) carinate, elypeus emar- 

 ginate in the centre and having on each side a small horizontal 

 rounded tooth, head and elypeus covered with closely set, round punc- 

 tures ; prothorax very broad and convex, carinate all round, closely 

 but not deeply punctulate, and having no trace of central line or 

 impression; elytra lifting against the thorax, orbicular, as convex 

 as the prothorax, bi-carinate along the outer margin, the carinas 

 very close to one another, but slightly diverging towards the base, 

 base sub-serrulate, suture not raised; they are very finely striate 

 with the intervals plane, slightly aciculate, and having several more 

 or less seriate rows of small punctures ; under side rugose and 

 -deeply punctured, metasternum with a deeply impressed median 

 line from between the intermediate coxoe to the base, and a small 

 ridge on each side of it at the apical part ; legs very Httle hairy, 

 under side hairless. 



Length 21-46 mm. ; width 20-31 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna, George, Bredasdorp, Caledon, Paarl). 



Gen. SCELIAGES, Westw., 

 Proceed. Zoolog. Soc, v., 1837, p. 12. 

 Mentum ovate, not at all emarginate at tip, lobes of ligula sub- 

 spatulate, densely ciliate, maxillaj not very Inroad, deeply scooped 

 inwardly, upper lobe directed inwardly, inner lobe nearly as Inroad 

 and not reaching the fringe of the upper one ; tirst and second joints 

 •of the maxillary palpi ob-conic, apical one longer than the two 



