274 MR. G. A. K. MARSHALL ON THE [Mar. 20, 



outer pair parallel to near apex and then curved outwardly ; 

 punctuation and scaling as on the head, but all three carinfe bare 

 and impunctate, the apical emargination comparatively shallow. 

 Antennce long and moderately slender, piceous, with fine greenish- 

 white setse ; scape scarcely compressed, distinctly curved and 

 gradually thickened to apex ; first joint of funicle much longer 

 than third, subterminal joints longer than broad. Prothorax 

 transverse, subtruncate at ba,se, narrower and truncate at apex, 

 sides slightly rounded, broadest about middle ; upper surface 

 convex, closely set with low granules, but with three broad smooth 

 lines, the outer ones being oblique ; colour black, the granules 

 bare and shiny, the interstices with green scales which are denser 

 on the smooth spaces. Elytra ovate, of the same shape in the 

 two sexes, subacuminate towards aj)ex, shoulders oblique, sides 

 moderately rounded, broadest rather before middle ; upper surface 

 convex, with deep striae containing large shallow punctures which 

 vanish behind middle ; the second, third, fourth, and seventh 

 intervals strongly carinate, the carinte being bare, shiny, and 

 subcatenulate, the fifth and eighth intervals similarly carinate 

 in the basal half and the sixth in its apical half, the remaining 

 portions broad and smooth ; colour black, the apices of the carinse 

 bare, the rest of the surface, including the strias, densely covered 

 with metallic pale green or yellowish-green scaling. T^egs long 

 and moderately slender, black, with dense greenish- white setiform 

 scaling ; the anterior tibise more curved apically in the S , but 

 otherwise the legs are similar in the two sexes. 



Type S $ ii^ the Stockholm Museum. 



Natal: Malvern {C. N. Barker k G. A. K. M.), Upper Tongaat 

 R. {0. N. Barker), Howick {Dr. F. Dimock Broum), Karkloof 

 {.las. Ball), Drakensberg {G. A. K. M.). 



A very distinct species on account of its brilliant colouring and 

 ca,iinate elytra. 



40. SCIOBIUS SQUAMULOSUS Boh. 



>S'. squamulosus Boh. op. cit. vii. 1, p. 194 (1843). 



Long. <S 5, $ 6 ; lat. c? 2, $ 3 mm. 



Head nearly as long as broad, slightly convex, finely punctured, 

 and with dense greenish-grey scaling ; forehead narrow and not 

 impi'essed ; eyes large and depressed. Rostrum elongate, basal 

 margin arcuate or subangulate, parallel-sided in cJ , somewhat 

 narrowed apically in $ , gense not dilated in either sex, apical 

 emargination small ; upper surface slightly convex, faintly tri- 

 carinate, the outer carinse convergent anteriorly, scaling and 

 punctuation as on the head. Antennce long and slender, ferru- 

 ginous, the apices of the joints infuscate, with fine grey scaling ; 

 scape cylindrical, strongly curved and abruptly clavate ; funicle 

 with the first joint about as long as the third, terminal joints 

 subconical. Protliorax slightly transverse, truncate at l^ase and 

 apex, the latter distinctly narrower, sides gently rounded, broadest 

 about middle ; upper surface convex, finely and evenly coiiaceous 



