1900.] Catalogue oj the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 51 



ScARABiEus MODESTUS, Bohem., 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 23. 



Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh., 1860, p. 22. 



S. rostratus, Pering., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iv., pt. ii., 

 1888, p. 92. 



Black, shining, but with the elytra a little duller than the 

 prothorax ; head verrucose and with a very distinct conical tubercle 

 in the centre in both sexes, median part of clypeus striolate, teeth 

 moderately long and sharp ; it is fringed with fulvous liairs, and the 

 mentum has a vertical, bifid toothed process extremely conspicuous; 

 prothorax not much convex, outer sides closely serrulate, ampliated 

 diagonally from the outer angle to one-third of the length, and 

 slanting from there to the base, basal margin not impressed and 

 having a series of fine, closely set punctures, the upper part is 

 covered with punctures fine but not very closely set, and it is fringed 

 laterally with fulvous hairs ; elytra moderately plane, suture hardly 

 gibbose, slightly ampliate in the middle laterally and a little attenuate 

 from there towards the apex, very finely striate with the strias 

 lineiform and the intervals plane, very slightly aciculate, and having 

 each two vague series of minute, indistinct punctures ; pygidium 

 closely but not deeply punctured ; legs fringed with long, fulvous 

 hairs ; anterior tibiae strongly quadri-dentate outwardly, mucronate 

 inwardly at tip, and having a closely and sharply serrate inner 

 lamina reaching as far as the basal outer tooth, the basal carina is 

 very strong and very distinctly serrate, and so is the outer edge from 

 the digitation to the base ; pectus densely villose, metathorax 

 with a very fine groove beginning at the apex and ending in an 

 elongate, not very deep, basal impression. 



Length 21-38 mm. ; width 15-22 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Bushmanland, Clanwilliam, Namaqualand), 

 Damaraland. 



SCARAB^US INFERNALIS, Klug, 



Plate XXXVII. , fig. 24. 

 Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 650; Peter's Eeis., 1862, p. 213. 



Black, opaque with some shining longitudinal lines and patches on 

 the prothorax, the suture of the elytra is also shining ; head entirely 

 covered with deep, elongate and very closely set punctures the edges 

 of which are shining, and fringed laterally with short brownish hairs, 

 median part of head with a sharp, but short protuberance, teeth 

 of clypeus long, sharp ; prothorax covered from apex to past the 

 median part, and totally along the sides, with a very distinct 



