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the antei-ior tibi?e slightly curved in the 2 ? ^^ little more strongly 

 so in the c? • 



Type, § in the British Museum, (5 in the Oxford Museum. 



Natal : Malvern {C. j.V. Barker). 



A very distinct little species. The dilated portion of the 

 second interval in the $ is distinctly flattened and more densely 

 covered with scales. The c? comes nearest to cociculatifrons 

 Boh., but the forehead is not striolate, the scape is much more 

 slender, and the elytra are scarcely inflexed laterally. 



19. SciOBius scapularis Boh. 



;S'. scapularis Boh. op. cit. vii. 1, p. 195 (1843). 



Long. 5|— 8, lat. 3-4| mm. 



Head convex ; forehead not impi'essed, finely plicate ; eyes not 

 prominent. Rostrum subquadrate, about as long as broad, base 

 trisiniiate or biangulate : genje not dilated in $ , slightly and 

 roundly dilated in* S ', upper surface plane, finely punctured and 

 distinctly tricarinate, the outer carinfe parallel to middle and 

 with a slight outward curve apically. Antennce moderately long, 

 piceous, with fine grey scaling ; scape compi-essed, broad, distinctly 

 bisinuate and gi-adually dilated to apex ; funicle with the third 

 joint much longer than the first. Prothorax veiy trans^^erse, 

 distinctly arcuate or even subangulate at base, much nai-rower 

 and faintly sinuate at apex ; sides scarcely rounded, bi'oadest close 

 to base and rapidly narrowed to apex ; upper surface slightly 

 convex, rather sparsely set with very depi-essed and sometimes 

 obsolescent gi-annles, the sides of the disk with a shallow and ill- 

 <lefined depression ; colour black, with thin whitish scaling which 

 is denser laterally and beneath. Elytra broadly ovate, jointly 

 sinuate at base, sides moderately rounded, broadest befoi'e middle ; 

 upper surface convex, the strise containing distinct punctures 

 which disappear behind middle, the intervals almost plane, of 

 equal width, smooth and without a trace of granules, very finely 

 aciculate ; colour piceous black, with fine thin grey scaling 

 (usually aV)raded), which is denser laterally. Legs moderate, 

 piceous, with fine grey scaling, the anterior paii'S of tibite slightly 

 more curved in the J , and with the inner angle a little more 

 produced than in the $ . 



Type, missing ; in Ecklon and Zeyher's Collection. 



Cape Colony : Grahamstown {Mrs. G. White, Miss Daly, and 

 Dr. Cheio). 



20. SCIOBIUS GRISEUS Gyl. 



S. griseus Gyl. Schonh. Gen. Cure. ii. p. 536 (1834). 



Long. 6 6-7f , 2 6|-7f ; lat. d 3|-4i, $ 4-4| mm. 



Head moderately transverse, convex, i-ugosely punctured, with 

 sparse grey scaling ; forehead plane, without impressions ; eyes not 

 prominent. liostrimi a little longei- than bi'oad, its basal margin 

 arcuate, sides parallel in the basal half ; genas slightly and roundly 



