1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 35 



Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Might be mistaken for very small examples of >S'. iutricatus, but 

 the punctures in the interstices of the elytra are less deep, do not 

 fill more than half the width of the intervals and are set more apart 

 from one another. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Calvinia). Originally discovered near the 

 Swakop Eiver in Damaraland. 



ScARAB^us LUCIDULUS, Boliem., 

 Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 107. 



Black, tinged with a metallic greenish sheen, and covered with 

 moderately dense light fulvous hairs ; antennae yellow except the 

 basal joint which is black ; head with a short, median denuded 

 longitudinal smooth line in the centre, covered with moderately 

 closely set punctures which are broader and much more apart from 

 one another than those on the clypeus which are extremely closely 

 set, teeth of clypeus very long and very sharp, the genae nearly 

 straight laterally ; prothorax a little convex, very closely and finely 

 serrulate laterally, with the basal margin carinate and without any 

 supra-basal impression, deeply punctured, with the punctures more 

 closely set and narrower laterally ; it is clothed with dense, short, 

 decumbent fulvous hairs, while the outer sides have long, ciliate 

 black hairs, denser and longer in the posterior part ; elytra plane, a 

 little attenuate towards the apex, striate with a series of strong- 

 punctures touching one another, and impinging on the sides of the 

 intervals, which are distinctly convex and sub-carinate at tip ; they 

 a-re clothed with a brief, light fulvous pubescence springing from the 

 punctures in the intervals ; the posterior margin is fringed with 

 moderately dense, long, black hairs, and the lateral margins are dis- 

 tinctly bi-carinate ; legs slender, intermediate and posterior ones 

 fringed with very long black hairs, anterior tibiae strongly and 

 sharply quadri-dentate, setulose inw^ardly, and closely serrulate 

 outwardly; metasternum with a narrow and very shallow- longi- 

 tudinal groove, sides closely punctured as far as the coxal cavities ; 

 pygidium closely punctured. 



Length 11|- mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hah. Ovampoland. 



SCAEAB^US ANDERSENI, Watcrh., 



Annals and Magaz. Natur. Hist., 1890, p. 366. 

 From Mr. Waterhouse's description I assumed that this species 



