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SCAEAB.EUS FLAVICOKNIS, Boliem., 



Plate XXX VII., fig. 8. 

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



Black, shining, head and prothorax clothed with a short, decum- 

 bent flavescent pubescence ; antennas yellow ; head closely punc- 

 tured and with a distinct, median longitudinal, smooth line broadly 

 dilated at base, clypeus covered with very closely elongate punctures, 

 the teeth long, the lateral lobes nearly straight ; prothorax not much 

 convex, slightly serrulate laterally with the anterior angle sharp but 

 not dentate, and the base not impressed, covered with fossulate 

 punctures closely set, but leaving a smooth median lineiform space 

 reaching from apex to base, outer sides fringed with moderately 

 dense black hairs ; elytra plane, a little attenuate towards the apex, 

 very narrowly striate with the striae closely and finely punctate, 

 intervals raised, tectiform, and having on the sharp edge a series of 

 distinct punctures bearing a very short flavescent hair, outer sides 

 bi-carinate ; legs long, slender, intermediate and posterior tibicC 

 fringed with very long black hairs, anterior tibiae with four long 

 teeth, serrulate outwardly, hardly so in the inner side, and somewhat 

 densely pilose ; metasternum closely punctulate, and with a median 

 longitudinal groove of equal width throughout ; pygidium somewhat 

 closely punctured. 



Length 12 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba). 



ScARAB^us PEOXiMUS, n. spec. 

 Plate XXXVII., fig. 9. 



Black, head and prothorax sub-opaque, elytra shining ; antennae 

 black, head closely punctured and with a distinct median short 

 carina in the anterior part, densely clothed with sub-fulvous hairs, 

 teeth of the clypeus long, very sharp, genae very little ampliated 

 laterally ; prothorax not ampliate laterally, not much convex, finely 

 serrulate laterally, and with the anterior angle slightly blunted, basal 

 margin sub-carinate and with a series of closely set punctures, disk 

 covered with very closely set granules leaving a distinct median 

 longitudinal smooth raised line reaching from base to apex, the 

 granules are replaced towards the base by very closely set scabrose 

 punctures, the outer sides are setulose, and on the disk are a few 

 decumbent black, very short hairs ; elytra plane, parallel, hardly 

 narrower than the prothorax at its widest part, striate, with the 

 striae im punctate ; the intervals are slightly tectiform, not quite 

 smooth, and have each one series of somewhat shallow, small, not 



