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very distinct punctures ; the outer margin is bi-carinate, the inner 

 carina is very sharp and prominent ; legs slender, tibiae and tarsi 

 ciliate with very dense, long black hairs ; anterior tibiae with four 

 long outer teeth, strongly serrate below the digitation and serrulate 

 between the outer teeth, inner part diagonal at tip and sub-mucronate, 

 serrulate from b^jse to apex ; metasternum pilose, closely punctulate, 

 the central part with a short median central groove, ending in an 

 elongato-ovate, deep apical impression ; pygidium sub-punctulate and 

 with a distinct longitudinal median raised line. 



Length 20-24 mm. ; width 11-14 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand), Port Nolloth. 



SCAEAB^US COGNATUS, n. SpeC. 



The description of S. 'proximus might serve for this species which 

 is, however, distinguished by the granules of the prothorax, which are 

 very much finer but equally dense, and instead of the conspicuous 

 longitudinal median slightly raised line, there is a shining, smooth 

 impressed line obliterated at apex and also near the base ; the elytra 

 are nearly equally parallel, hardly narrower at apex than at base, but 

 a little more sinuate laterally behind the shoulder, whereas in 

 S. 'proximus ? they are quite straight, the intervals are similar, 

 although less tectiform, especially the third, but the striae are very 

 much broader and are opaque, w^hile the intervals are shining ; 

 pygidium closely punctate, and without a median longitudinal raised 

 line ; the legs are equally densely ciliate, and the club of the 

 antennae is flavescent. 



Length 25 mm. ; width 12^ mm. 



Damaraland (Salem). One example only. It is said to be very 

 scarce there. 



ScAEAB^^us FEiTSCHi, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft, iii., 1868, p. 80. 



Black, shining on the head and prothorax, elytra opaque ; head 

 with a median, smooth, longitudinal carina reaching from the base 

 to the median part, sides of the head closely punctulate, clypeus sub- 

 striolate, and with the teeth long and sharp, and the genae nearly 

 straight, slightly pilose like the head, and fringed laterally with long, 

 brownish black hairs ; prothorax convex, distinctly serrulate laterally, 

 anterior angles not prominent, basal margin closely punctulate 

 towards the sides, disk covered with moderately closely set setigerous, 

 sub-foveolate punctures, and having a central, longitudinal smootli 



