286 INSECTA. 



The only species known — Scarites ni/icornis, Fab. — inhabits 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



Scarites, Fab. 



The four posterior tibiae narrow, generally smoot-ti, and merely 

 furnished with little spines on their ridges, the intermediaries have 

 at most one or two teeth on the exterior side; the trochanter of the 

 posterior thighs much smaller than the thighs themselves. The 

 mandibles form elongated triangles, and are strongly dcntated at 

 base. The second and third joints of the antennae resemble reversed 

 cones, almost of the same thickness; the following ones are granu- 

 lous. 



Some have two teeth on the exterior side of the intermediate tibioe. 

 Sc. pyracmon, Bonel.; Dej*., Spec. I, p. 367; Sc. gigas, Oliv., 

 Col. Ill, No. 36, I, 1; Clairv., Entom. Helv. II, ix, a. About 

 an inch long; apterous; flattened; of a shining black; the elytra 

 somewhat widened posteriorly, finely striate, and the striae 

 lightly punctate; in the third, near the extremity, two more 

 distinct and deeper puncta. The head, according to Count 

 Dejean, is much larger in the male than in the female; the front 

 of the latter presents two impressions and some little rugae. 

 The thorax, on each side, exhibits a tooth posteriorly. There 

 are three on the anterior tibiae. It is found on the borders of 

 the Mediterranean, in the south of France, and the eastern 

 part of Spain. M. Lefebvre de Cerisy, a distinguished naval 

 officer and excellent entomologist, has published some observa- 

 tions on its habits. 



Sc. terricola, Bonel.; Dej., Spec. I, p. 398. Body furnished 

 with wings; from eight to nine lines in length; black; anterior 

 tibiae with three stout teeth, followed by three very small ones; 

 external side of the two following tibiae with but one; elytra elon- 

 gated, striate, and slightly rugose; two deep points near the 

 third stria. Found with the pyracmon. 



Sc. sabulosus, Oliv., Col. Ill, 36, 1, 8; Clairv., Entom, Helv. 

 II, ix, 6; Scar, lasvigatus, Fab., Dej. Very similar to the ter- 

 ricola, but somewhat smaller and more depressed; it is apterous 

 and the elytra slightly striate; but two indentations on the an- 

 terior tibiae after the three ordinary teeth. ' It inhabits the same 

 localities as the pyracmon, and is also found in Sicily(l). 



(1) The Sc. subterraneus. Fab. Syst. El. I, p. 124, No. 8, is usually considered 

 as the only species of Scarites that inhabits the United States. The very great 

 disparity of size, however, between it and a congei\er from Georgia, combined with 



