1900.] Catalogm' of the Coleoptera oj Smith Africa. 45' 



metathorax closely punctured on the sides, somewhat sharp at the base, 

 grooved longitudinally from apex to base, the sides of the groove are ' 

 raised in the anterior part only ; the pygidium is hardly aciculate. 



Length 22-26 mm.; vv^idth 15-16 mm. 



Hah, Cape Colony (Namaqualand, Barkly West). 



ScARAB^us SAviGNYi, McLeav, 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 16. 

 Hor. Entom., i., 2, 1821, p. 503. 

 S. transrersus, Casteln., Hist. Nat., ii., p. 65. 



Black, shining ; basal part of the head nearly impunctate, clypeus 

 covered with closely set, elongate punctures, teeth not long, and 

 moderately sharp; prothorax very convex, slightly serrulate laterally, 

 basal margin impunctate and not impressed, disk impunctate and 

 with two sub-diagonal shallow fovese not quite in the centre, and a 

 faint, supra-lateral impression on each side, which might, however, be 

 accidental ; elytra a little attenuate from the shoulder to the apex, 

 obsoletely striate with the intervals plane, smooth and very nearly 

 impunctate, outer margin closely bi-carinate, suture sub-gibbose at 

 middle ; legs fringed with short, black hairs ; anterior tibiae with 

 three moderately long outer teeth, and a small basal one, inner 

 part with a sharp ridge on the upper side ending in a short spine at 

 apex, smooth in the anterior part and crenulate at base ; m eta- 

 sternum compressed apically and having a slight canaliculation 

 beginning almost at the apex and ending in a shallow, triangular 

 basal impression ; pygidium impunctate. The shape of the genital 

 armature is very nearly identical with that of >S'. hottentoruin , and 

 the two species are undoubtedly very closely connected, the differ- 

 ence between the two consisting in the absence of the two fovese 

 on the disk, as well as the quadri-dentate tibia3, which. are very 

 conspicuously crenulate inwardly and strongly mucronate at tip in 

 >S'. hottentoTum. 



Length 29 mm. ; width 17-18 mm. 



Hah. Caps Colony (Caledon, Tulbagh, Knysna, Graham's Town).. 



ScABAB^us CONVEXUS, Hausm., 

 Plate XXX VIL, fig. 17. 

 Illig. Mag., vi., 1807, p. 249. 

 S. Icdvis, Thunb., Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 408. 



Black, shining equally on prothorax and elytra; head nearly smooth 

 in the middle of vertex, clypeus with very closely set, elongate punc- 



