] 906.] COLEOPTERA OF THE GENUS SCIOBIUS. 263 



bi'oadei' and siil^truncate, the sides lineai" ; uppei- sui-face slightly 

 convex, evenly set with low, rather distant gi'anules and without 

 lateral impressions ; colour piceous, granules bare, the interstices 

 with thin yellowish pubescence which is denser latei'ally. Elytra 

 pyrifoi-m, slightly emai-ginate at base, which is a little broader 

 than the prothorax, the humeral angles obtuse, sides strongly 

 rounded, broadest well behind middle ; upper surface convex, the 

 striae containing rows of shallow punctures separated by small 

 granules, the intervals almost plane, subequal in width on the 

 disk, finely coiiaceous and with traces of depressed obsolescent 

 granules, especially near apex ; colour piceous, with thin minvite 

 grey scaling which is denser and yellowish along the inflexed 

 margins. Legs ferruginous, with thin grey pubescence, the 

 anterior tibias only slightly curved. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Natal : Lower Tugela {E. Reynolds — Brit. Mus.). 



Founded on two specimens of uncertain sex. In general facies 

 this insect is like an elongated bistrigicollis, but the very broad 

 and carinate scape will at once distinguish it from all its 

 congeners. 



*25. ScioBius PERiNGUEYi, sp. nov. (Plate XVIII. fig. 11.) 



Long. 8|-, lat. 24 mm. 



Head moderately transverse, slightly convex, finely coiiaceous, 

 with fine pale scaling which is denser i-ound the eyes ; forehead 

 shallowly depressed in middle ; eyes slightly prominent. Rostrum 

 longer than broad, its basal margin sharply angulate, sides sub- 

 parallel to near apex, gense rounded and slightly dilated ; upper 

 surface plane, coriaceous, finely tricarinate, the outer carinse 

 straight and parallel. Anteniue moderately long and slender, 

 piceous, with dense fine grey pubescence ; scape not compressed, 

 but strongly curved about middle and subclavate beyond the 

 curve ; f unicle with the first and third joints subequal. Prothorax 

 rather bi'oader than long, truncate at base and apex, the latter 

 being a little narrower, sides slightly rounded, bi-oadest about 

 middle ; uppei- surface convex, set with rather distant depressed 

 granules and without any impi'essions ; colour piceous, with thin 

 grey scaling dorsally and with dense yelloAV scaling laterally and 

 beneath. Elytra ovate, ti'uncate at base, subacuminate apically, 

 a little broader than the prothorax at the shoulders, which are 

 subrectangular and slightly prominent, sides modei'ately rounded, 

 broadest rather before middle ; upper surface convex and gradually 

 declivous behind, with broad strias containing rows of large shallow 

 punctures sepai'ated by small granules and disappearing on the 

 declivity ; the intei'vals of equal width, nai-i'ow, slightly convex 

 and coarsely coriaceous but without any distinct gianulation ; 

 colour piceous, with fine yellow scaling, which is thin dorsally, 

 except round the scutellum, but foi-ms a broad and dense lateral 

 stripe which emits inwai'dly an oblique pointed band nearly 

 reaching the suture at the summit of the declivity. Legs 



