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Prothorax smooth, sparsely punctiilate, outer margin 

 mucronate at the base ; anterior tibise not mucronate 

 inwardly at tip, but serrulate outwardly ; posterior tibise 

 distinctly sinuate ebcnus. 



B^ Base of prothorax punctate. 



Prothorax smooth, sparingly punctulate ; anterior tibi« 

 mucronate at tip, inwardly and strongly serrate ; posterior 

 tibise not sinuate liottentorum. 



ScARAB^us cuPREus, Casteln., 

 Plate XXXI., fig. 6, and Plate XXXVII. , fig 2. ,. 

 Hist. Natur., ii., 1840, p. 65. 



S. (Evuginosus, Klug., Monatsb. Beii. Acad., 1855, p. 650. 

 *S'. cuijreits, Bohem., Insect. Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 163. 



Shining coppery bronze with the suture and the lateral carinae of 

 elytra greenish ; under side and legs dark bronze-green ; head covered 

 with very closely set, deep, elongate punctures, clypeus six-dentate, 

 the teeth well defined but not quite acute, sides fringed with fulvous 

 hairs ; prothorax moderately convex, closely and very distinctly 

 serrate laterally, grooved along the posterior margin, covered with 

 very closely set granules, and having in the middle a narrow, smooth 

 longitudinal space reaching from the base to the median part ; elytra 

 convex at about the median part, a little ampliated laterally behind 

 the humeral part, very finely striate, the striae are smooth and 

 the intervals are very slightly shagreened and have each two 

 rows of minute punctures ; the outer margin is distinctly three- 

 carinate ; pectus clothed with fulvous hairs, metasternum with two 

 deep ovate impressions in the centre ; legs rugoso-punctate, anterior 

 tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, and with a rudimentary basal tooth, 

 carinate inwardly, and not serrulate outwardly ; pygidium very 

 closely punctured. 



Length 29-38 mm. ; width 17-23 mm. 



Hab. Zambesia (Victoria Falls, Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn) ; Trans- 

 vaal (Lydenburg). 



Scarab JEus metallicus, Bohem., 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 3. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 164. 



Dull coppery bronze on the upper side, bronze black underneath, 

 legs also bronze-black ; head covered with v.ery closely set, deep, 

 elongate punctures, teeth of the clypeus sharp; prothorax depressed, 

 closely serrate laterally and with a sharp tooth at the anterior angle, 



