4 Mr. C. N. Barker on new 
Oo 
compared with species contained in the British Museum by 
Mr. H. E. Andrewes, with none of which, he says, does it 
agree. 
” Hab. Natal: Upper Tongaat, Found in a decayed tree- 
stump by the author. 
Tribe ScARITINI. 
Scarites giganteus, sp. n. 
Length 40-45 mm. ; width 134-144 mm.; width of pro- 
thorax identical with that of elytra. 
Black, hardly shiny ; head quadrate, nearly twice as wide 
as long, frontal part triangularly grooved or depressed on 
either side between and below eyes, the impressions, epistome 
and mandibles longitudinally plicate, the plications on the 
mandibles forming deep folds; posterior part of head 
almost smooth, faintly transversely wrinkled. 
Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, transversely 
wrinkled like head, apex straight, sides below apical angles 
rounded and ampliated for a short distance, then gradually 
and nearly straightly contracted to the break in the margins 
immediately above the posterior sete, whence they are 
obliquely and a little sinuously drawn in to base; base one- 
third less wide than apex, broadly excavate, and both it 
and the lateral margins narrowly reflex-bordered; below 
front, from angle to angle, a submarginal inwardly sinuate 
Jine, the space between it and margin, except for a brief 
median interval, longitudinally plicate. 
Elytra: base squarely truncate, narrower by one-third 
than the prothorax, humeral angles dentated, sides gradually 
ampliated from shoulders to below middle, where the elytra 
are as wide as the prothorax at its widest, thence gently 
rounded to apex, striate, the first five striz very shallow and 
intervals quite plane, the sixth and all intervals towards 
apex a little raised, the seventh and eighth subcarinate ; 
the eighth interval narrows towards and does not quite 
reach the base and apically bends inwards, coalescing 
with the intervals 6 and 7; the strial interstices at base, 
shoulder, and the whole length and width of the broad 
intermarginal groove densely granulate; on either side a 
setigerous supra-apical puncture on the third interval. 
Beneath smooth and shining, except for some sparse 
plications about the sterna and striw covering the anterior 
COX. 
The nearest ally to giyanteus appears to be S. dogueraui, 
