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



broken, transverse band across the summit of the declivity, and 

 some irregular mottling on the declivity itself ; these markings 

 are usually better defined in the 'cS . Legs modei'ately long and 

 stout, piceous or ferruginous, with fine pale pubescence, anteiior 

 tibife slightly curved in the c? , less curved in the 5 • 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



jSTatal : Malvern (C. iV^. Barker & G. A. K. M.). Umkomaas R. 

 (6-'. .-1. K. i/.), Durban {J. P. Cregoe), Umbilo {H. IV. Bell-Marley). 



The cS may be readily distinguished from all its smallei- allies 

 by its very prominent gena?. The 5 is not unlike that of brevicoUis, 

 from which it may be I'ecognised by its more prominent gena?, much 

 less transverse thorax, and subpyriform elytra. 



11. SciOBius oNEiLi, sp, uov. (Plate XYIII. fig. 5.) 



Long. 4-i-5|, lat. 3-34 mm. 



Head transverse, slightly convex, almost bare and with numerous 

 fine longitudinal strioe ; forehead not impressed ; eyes not 

 pi-ominent. Rostrmn about as long as broad, arcuate at base, 

 slightly narrowed anteiioily, gena3 not dilated ; upper surface 

 plane, distinctly striolate and with three narrow carinas, the outer 

 ones quite straight and parallel. Antennce rather short, piceous, 

 with fine grey scaling ; scape broad, compressed, strongly curved 

 and gradually dilated to apex ; funicle with third joint longer than 

 first, terminal joints elongate and subcorneal. ProtJiorax strongly 

 transverse, 2j times as broad as long, arcuate at base, apex 

 narrower and truncate, sides slightly rounded, broadest near base ; 

 upper surface convex, closely and evenly set with depressed rounded 

 granules, with a deep longitudinal impression on each side of the 

 base ; colour black, with very thin fine grey scaling, which is a 

 little more dense underneath. Ehjt^^a very broadly ovate, jointly 

 sinuate at base, obtusely rovnided at apex, sides strongly rounded, 

 broadest befor-e middle ; iipper sm-face convex, distinctly punctato- 

 striate, the punctures continued to apex, the intervals of equal 

 width, almost plane, quite smooth and finely alutaceous ; colour 

 black, with uniform thin gi'ey scaling. Legs modeiute, black, with 

 fine grey scaling, the anterior tibite straight. 



Type J in the British Museum. 



Cape Colony : Grahamstown ("on aniseed" — Father ONeil). 



The three examples upon which the description is founded 

 appear to be all females. 



*12. SCIOBIUS GRANIPENNIS Boh. 



*S'. granipennis Boh. op. cit. vii. 1, p. 200 (1843). 



/S'. deplanatus Boh. 1. c. p. 201. 



Long. 44-5|-, lat. 3-3| mm. 



Head transverse, black, bare, distinctly and longitudinally 

 plicate; forehead convex and without impressions; eyes moderately 

 prominent. Rostrum a little longer than broad, sides subparallel ; 

 genje scarcely dilated, bluntly angulate at apex, similar in the two 

 sexes ; upper surface plane, longitudinally plicate, with three 



