1900.] ('(tlidoijiie of the Culcnptcra of South Affica. ().'{ 



precediiii>;, sub-cyliiKlrical, a little attenuate at lip, and not j^rooved 

 inwardly ; labial palpi short, thick, the penultimate one is half the 

 size of the one preceding, and the apical one very much narrower 

 and sub-cylindrical ; clypeus six-dentat(! ; l)asal joint of antenna- 

 longer than the live following, club three-jointed, somewliat globose, 

 the joints fitting into each other ; prothorax very convex, mar- 

 ginate laterally; elytra hardly convex, slightly gibbose in the middle 

 near the suture past the median part of the disc, bi-carinate laterally ; 

 pygidium nearly vertical; legs robust; anterior tibiic strongly quadri- 

 dentate outwardly ; posterior and intermediate tibiii) dilated at apex, 

 bi-dentate outwardly, and the intermediate with two apical spurs ; 

 tarsi short, broadly triangular, spinose, claws normal ; intermediate 

 coxa3 diagonal, broadly separated, metathorax produced in a sub- 

 cuneiform process at apex ; body and legs well-nigh hairless ; no 

 sexual difference ; shape of genital armature identical in the two 

 species included in the genus. 



The facies of Sceliagcs is very much like that of some species of 

 Scaralneus. The characteristic differences are : (1) The shape of the 

 antennal club, the last joint of which is smaller than the second 

 and fits into it, the second is also smaller than the third and tits 

 iilso into it ; (2) the shape of tlie tarsi ; (3) the presence of two 

 apical spurs on the intermediate and posterior tibiie; (4) the broadly 

 separated intermediate coxae. 



Two species of Sceliages are now known to occur in South Africa, 

 and the genus has not as yet been met with anywhere else. 



Keif to the Species. 



Anterior tibiae not curved or dilated inwardly at tip ; iintennaj 



yellow hippias. 



Anterior tibias curved and dilated inwardly ; antennae black . . adamastor. 



Sceliages adamastoe, Serv., 



Plate XXX., fig. 9 ; Plate XXXVII. , tig. 35. 



Encyclop. method., x., 1825, p. 351. 



Sceliaycs jojKiSjV^estw., Trans. Zool. Soc, ii., p. 159, pi. 29, fig. 1. 

 Atcuchus microccphalus (pars.), Bohem , Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 174. 

 Sceliagcs adamastor, Lacord., Gener. Atlas, pi. xxvi., fig. 2. 



Black, shining ; clypeus six-dentate and covered, like the head, 

 with very closely set punctures w^iich are deeper than those on the 

 head; antennae rufo-piceous ; prothorax very convex, quite smooth, 

 sharply carinate laterally and in front, outer margin slightly ser- 



