1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Soiitli Africa. 49 



late and striate, the striae lineiform, and the intervals with a double 

 series of vaguely apparent punctures ; pygidium vaguely punctulate ; 

 legs fringed with short, fulvous hairs, anterior tibiae with four strong 

 outer teeth, and having an inner lamina reaching as far as the basal 

 part of the second apical tooth, and a small tooth at a short distance 

 from it under the second basal outer one ; the inner carina is serru- 

 late at the base, but the outer side is not ; metasternum with a broad 

 basal impression, and, between the intermediate coxae, an elongate 

 one prolonged in a very shallow narrow groove stopping at a certain 

 distance from the apex; pectus clothed with long, dense flavous hairs. 



Length 36-40 mm. ; width 23-24 mm. 



Hah. Ovampoland (Okatchero), Lower Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn, 

 Hanyani River), Transvaal (Rustenburg), Natal (Durban). 



SCARAB^EUS PACATUS, n. spec. 



Black, or piceous black, sub-opaque ; very closely allied to 

 S. prof anus, the description of which applies equally to this species ; 

 the difference, however, consists in the shape of the anterior tibiae 

 which instead of having at tip a very distinct and sharp inner 

 lamina broadly scooped out at about the middle, and a short tooth 

 forming the posterior angle of the broad incision, is simply carinate 

 inwardly and very slightly sinuate with a very slightly dentate 

 process at the end of it under the second basal outer tooth. 



Were it not that in S. profanus the female has the fore tibiae 

 similar to those of the male, this species might be taken for it. It 

 is distinguished from S. satyrus, the fore tibiae of which are nearly 

 similar, by the more ampliate body and by the finely granulosa 

 prothorax. I have seen female examples only. 



Length 33 mm. ; width 20 mm. 



Hah. Southern Rhodesia (no exact locality). 



SCARAB^US ZAMBESIANUS, n. speC. 



Black, moderately shining ; head, thorax, and legs fringed with 

 fulvous hairs ; head closely granulate at base, centre, and on the 

 sides, clypeus striolate, teeth sharp, recurved, the two median ones 

 sharply carinate beneath, central part of the head with a con- 

 spicuously long and sharp triangular tubercle ; prothorax moderately 

 convex, closely serrulate laterally along the base as far as the fourth 

 stria, and closely punctured from there, the surface is very finely 

 aciculate, and it is covered with somewhat closely set but not deep- 

 punctures ; elytra a little attenuate from behind the shoulders 

 towards the apex, not much raised at middle along the suture, very 



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