1906.] COLEOPTBRA OF THE GENUS SCIOBIUS. 265 



Antennm comparatively long and slender, piceous, with sparse pale 

 seta3 ; scape slender, subcylindrical, rather abruptly clavate, slightly 

 curved, the thiixl joint of the funicle scai-cely longer than the first, 

 the three subterminal joints much longer than broad. Protliorax 

 slightly transverse in the S , more so in the $ , truncate at base 

 and apex, sides subparallel from base to far beyond middle, thence 

 rapidly narrowed to apex ; upper surface slightly convex but 

 flattened on the disk, somewhat sparsely set with small low smooth 

 tubercles, most of which are rounded but some elongate ; colour 

 black oi- piceous, the discal area bare, the sides and prosternum with 

 moderately dense depressed yellow setfe. Elytra ovate, subacu- 

 minate apically in both sexes, but a little broader in the 5 , jointly 

 sinuate at base, shouldei'S very oblique, sides moderately rounded, 

 broadest before middle ; upper surface convex, subcompressed on 

 the declivity so that the suture is there rather pi'ominent, with 

 shallow sti'ia3 containing rows of shallow separated punctures, the 

 intervals slightly convex, of approximately equal width on the disk, 

 finely aciculate, and bearing scattered irregular low tubercles which 

 in some parts make the elytra appear to be transversely rugose ; 

 colour black or piceous, almost bare on the disk but with the sides 

 somewhat densely clothed with yellow setiform scaling ; on the 

 apical half the intervals bear rows of long erect pale setse. Legs 

 dark feiTuginous, the trochanters, knees, and tarsi black, covered 

 with sparse pale setae, thicker in the c? than in the 5 , and with 

 all the tibict? broader and more strongly curved. 



Type, $ in the British Museum, c? in the South African 

 Museum. 



PoNDOLAND : Port St. John {G. Shortridge). 



Resembling a large tottus Sparrm. in appearance, but the scape 

 is shorter, stouter, and less sti'ongly clavate, and the granulation 

 of the elytra is coarser. The presence of long erect setae is also a 

 distinctive character, being very unusual in the genus. 



28. SCIOBIUS TOTTUS SpaiTm. 



G'urculio tottas, Sparrm. Acfc. Holm. 1785, p. 50, t. 2. f. 21. 



S. tottus, Gyl. Schonh. Gen, Cure. ii. p. 535 (1834). 



tS. porcatus Gyl. 1. c. p. 535. 



Long. J 8-8|, 2 8f-10; lat. d 3i-3f, $ 34-4i mm. 



Head ti-Ansvevse, convex, with close shallow punctuation and thin 

 grey scaling ; forehead scarcely impressed in middle ; eyes not very 

 prominent. Rostram i-ather longer than broad, basal margin 

 angulate, sides subparallel to near apex, genae slightly and roundly 

 dilated, similar in the two sexes ; upper surface plane, with scaling 

 and punctuation as on the head, tricarinate, the outer carinse 

 parallel to near apex, then divergent. Antennce yerj long and 

 slender, piceous, v\dth fine grey pulDescence ; scape elongate, regu - 

 larly curved, cylindrical, abi'uptly clavate ; funicle with the third 

 joint scarcely longer than the first, the subterminal joints elongate 

 and scarcely broader apically. Prothorax moderately transverse 

 in (5 , more so in $ , slightly arcviate at base, narrower and 



