1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 43- 



and a little ampliated at middle, very distinctly striate with the strise 

 faintly punctured, the intervals are raised, and have each a row of 

 foveate punctures nearly as broad as the interval, and closely set, 

 outer margin very closely bi-carinate ; under side pilose except on 

 abdomen ; intermediate and posterior tibias fringed with moderately 

 dense black hairs, anterior tibiae quadri-dentate and serrulate on both 

 sides ; metasternum punctulate and having a very narrow median 

 groove extending for nearly all the length and ending in an ovate 

 impression at apex. 



Length 14-17 mm. ; width 9-11 mm. 



Hah. Bechuanaland (Kanye), Transvaal (Lydenburg), Zambesia 

 (Buluwayo), Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



SCAEAB^US INTERSTITIALIS, Boliem., 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 171. 



"Black, moderately shining; head finely, closely and rugosely 

 punctate, almost smooth behind, deeply punctate on each side, 

 with six acute teeth in front ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as 

 long, black, moderately shining, outer sides finely crenulate, and 

 sparely fringed with black hairs, moderately convex, closely but 

 not strongly shagreened and having a few scattered punctures more 

 closely set in front and on the sides, and rarer in the middle ; elytra 

 a little ampliate behind the base and slightly narrowed from there 

 towards the apex, finely but distinctly striate with the intervals plane 

 and covered with moderately close and somewhat deep punctures ; 

 anterior tibiae crenulate on each side, sharply quadri-dentate out- 

 wardly, basal tooth small, posterior tibiae long, bi-arcuate, fringed 

 with very long, dense black hairs, and having no trace of sub-apical 

 outer teeth." 



Length 17 mm. ; width 10|- mm. 



Hah. Interior of Caffraria, teste Bohem. 



The only example of this species T have seen is Boheman's type. 

 It is easily distinguished by the long, sinuate and arcuate posterior 

 tibiae, which resemble those of S. ehcnus. It is nearly similar in size 

 and facies to S. funchris. 



ScARAB^us AMBiGuus, Bohem.^ 

 Plate XXXVIL, fig. 13. 

 Insect. Caifr., ii., p. 173. 



Black, opaque ; • head very closely punctured, the punctures are 

 more elongated on the clypeus the teeth of which are fairly long 



