1906.) COLEOPTERA OP THE CtBNUS SCIOBIUS. 265 



Anteiince comparatively long and slender, piceous, with sparse pale 

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

 curved, the third joint of' the funicle scarcely longer than the iiist, 

 the three subterminal joints much longer than broad. PratJiorax 

 slightly transverse in the c? , more so in the $ , truncate at base 

 and apex, sides subpai'allel from base to far beyond middle, thence 

 rapidly narrowed to apex ; uppei- 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 or piceous, the discal area bare, the sides and prosternum with 

 moderately dense depressed yellow sette. Elytra ovate, subacu- 

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

 sinuate at base, shoulders very oblique, sides moderately rounded, 

 broadest before middle ; upper surface convex, subcompressed on 

 the declivity so that the suture is there rather prominent, with 

 shallow strife 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 I'ugose ; 

 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 setae. Legs 

 dark ferruginous, the trochanters, knees, a,nd tarsi black, covered 

 with sparse pale setfe, thicker in the S than in the $ , and with 

 all the tibiae broader and more strongly curved. 



Type, 5 in the British Museum, S in the South African 

 Museum. 



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



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

 is shorter, stouter, and less strongly clavate, and the granulation 

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

 distinctive character, being very unusual in the genus. 



28. SciOBius TOTTUS Sparrm. 



C'urcidio tottus, Sparrm. Act. Holm. 1785, p. 50, t. 2. f. 21. 



iS. toUus, Gyl. Schonh. Gen. Cure. ii. p. 535 (1834). 



S. jiorcatus Gyl. 1. c. p. 535. 



Long. 6 8-8f, $ 8f-10;_lat. S 3i-3|, $ 34-44 mm. 



Head transverse, convex, with close shallow punctuation and thin 

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

 prominent. Rostmin rather longer than broad, basal margin 

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

 dilated, similar in the two sexes ; upper sui'face plane, with scaling 

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

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

 slender, piceous, with fine grey pubescence ; scape elongate, regu ■ 

 larly curved, cylindrical, abruptly clavate ; fLinicle with the third 

 Joint scarcely longer than the first, the subterminal joints elongate 

 and scarcely broader apically. Prothorax moderately transverse 

 in S , more so in 5 , slightly arcuate at base, narrower and 



