34 Mr, C. N. Barker on new 



compared with species contained in the British Museum by 

 Mr. H. E. Aiidrewes, with none of which, he says, does it 

 agree. 



I/ab. Natal : Upper Tongaat. Found in a decayed tree- 

 stump by the author. 



Tribe S c a r i t i n i . 



Scarites giyanteus, sp. n. 



Length 40-Jr5 mm. ; width 13^-14^ mm. ; width of pro- 

 thorax identical with that of elytra. 



Black, hardly shiny ; head quadrate, nearly twice as wide 

 as long, frontal part trimgularly grooved or depressed on 

 either side between and below eyes, the impressions, epistome 

 and mandibles longitudinally plicate, the idicatious on the 

 mandibles forming deep folds ; posterior part of head 

 almost smooth, faintly transversely wrinkled. 



Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, transversely 

 wrird^led 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 setai, whence they are 

 oldiquely 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 

 line, the space between it and margin, except for a brief 

 median interval, longitudinally plicate. ♦ 



Elytra : base squarely truncate, narrower by one-third 

 than tlie 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 strite very shallow and 

 intervals quite plane, the sixth and ail 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 

 \\\t\\ the intervals G and 7 ; the strial interstices at base, 

 shoulder, and the whole lengtii and width ot" the broad 

 intermargiiial groove densely granulate ; on either side a 

 setigeruus supra-apical puncture on the third interval. 



Beneath smooth and shining, except for some sparse 

 plications about the sterna and striie covering the anterior 

 coxie. 



The nearest ally to yiyanttus appears to be <S'. doyuerau'i. 



