1458 COLEOPTERA 



the disc is not very convex, so that if the nodosities were away there 

 would be no great difference of level. 



Length, 4 ; breadth, 2 lines. 



Mount Egmont. One, found by Mr. A. T. Urquhar't. 



2529. S. dorsalis, fis. Piceous, antennae, tarsi, and palpi red; 

 densely covered with small scales, reddish, brown, and ochraceous, 

 the last colour predominates near the shoulders and on the thorax. 



Head rather narrow, impunctate. Antenna with short yellow 

 setae, the last three joints with minute pubescence, third joint not 

 twice the length of the second. Thorax rather narrow, widest at 

 the middle, only about one-sixth broader than long, including the 

 angles ; anterior angles distant from the eyes, straight, not incurved 

 as in S. marginatus, and extending as far as the front of these 

 organs ; the apical median emargination with raised lateral borders, 

 there is a larger obtuse elevation behind the middle, the rest of the 

 surface is rather flat, and there is the usual bare linear space on the 

 middle ; the sides are nearly straight in front, but they are a good 

 deal narrowed and slightly incurved behind, the basal angles are 

 rectangular. Scutellum transverse, nude and flat in the middle. 

 Elytra twice as broad as the thorax at the base, which is curved 

 towards the shoulders, from these to the hind thighs only very 

 slightly narrowed, the apices obtuse, oblique towards the suture ; 

 disc convex, descending abruptly towards the explanate, coarsely- 

 foveate sides, with four large tubercular elevations, two on top of the 

 posterior declivity and two behind the middle, there are two smaller 

 ones nearer the base, but still rather distant from it, and the surface 

 generally is uneven, the punctuation is coarse but hardly at all serial. 

 Legs reddish, more or less variegated with pallid setae. 



This, no doubt, is allied to S. bullatus, but the shoulders are not 

 at all prominent ; the elytral apices are rather broad, and the pos- 

 terior tibiae are distinctly incurved. 



Length, 4 ; breadth, 2 lines. 



Capleston. One, taken off a bramble by Mr. Cavell. 



2530. S. pUHCtaituSjH.s. Fuscous, tarsi red, palpi rufo-piceous; 

 covered with slender variegate scales, fuscous, ochraceous, and red- 

 dish. 



Head broadly impressed. Thorax a little elevated at each side 

 of the apical median emargination, more so behind the middle, the 

 dorsal linear space nearly bare ; the front angles extend to the front 

 of the eyes, they are not very distant from them, and are a little 

 incurved ; the posterior angles are nearly rectangular, but, owing to 

 a distinct sinuosity near each, at the base, they appear to be directed 

 backwards; there is another basal notch in front of the scutellum, 

 but not as wide as it is ; it is widest behind the middle, the sides are 

 quite sinuously contracted behind, but are nearly straight towards 

 the front. Scutellum broad, the middle bare for one-third of the 

 whole width. Elytra not twice the breadth of the thorax at the 

 base, only a little curved towards the shoulders, these are raised, 

 subtuberculate, but do not project outwardly ; they are oblong, their 



