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granulation, the greatest part of the hase is, however, nearly smooth 

 and opaque, and there is a median lozenge-shaped, smooth, shining, 

 patch prolonged in a smooth line as far as the apex, a broader line 

 on each side of it also smooth and opaque and reaching from the 

 middle to a short distance from the apex, and a supra-lateral, trans- 

 verse sub-triangular impression, sometimes granulose, but sometimes 

 also nearly smooth ; the disk is very little convex, closely denticulate 

 laterally, and the anterior angles are produced in a short but very 

 distinct spine ; the posterior margin is carinulate and has a series 

 of very closely set punctures ; elytra plane, with the suture hardly 

 gibbose at middle, sub-parallel but distinctly attenuate towards the 

 apex, very finely shagreened, narrowly striate, intervals with a nearly 

 obliterated double series of punctures, second and fourth intervals 

 more shining than the others, outer margin distinctly bi-carinate ; 

 pygidium punctulate and slightly granulose ; intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae fringed with not very long black hairs, anterior tibiee 

 armed outwardly with three long and sharp spines, and a small basal 

 one, not serrulate outwardly, very sharply and distinctly carinate 

 inwardly, the carina scooped out in a line with the third outer tooth 

 and armed with a sharp spine at base ; metasternum wdth a deep 

 elongate excavation between the intermediate tibise, a fine line 

 reaching from there to the apex, and another similar line reaching 

 tlie base ; sides punctulate and pilose. 



Length 33-41 mm. ; width 20-24 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban), Transvaal (Kustenburg), Southern 

 Ehodesia (Salisbury, Victoria Falls), Mozambique (Delagoa Bay). 



Gerstaeker considers this species as a variety of S. lamarki, 

 McLeay, from Senegal, Nubia, and Guinea. Kolbe does not mention 

 it in his enumeration of the Scarahceus from East Africa. 



ScAEAB^us PEODiGiosus, Erichs., 



Plate XXXVIL, fig. 25. 



Wiegm. Arch., 1843, i., p. 231. 



Black, moderately shining ; head and clypeus covered with deep, 

 elongate punctures somewhat striolate in the anterior part, teeth of 

 the clypeus long, sharp, central part of the head with a very short 

 ridge, somewhat aculeate, but not always distinct ; the hairs fringing 

 the head are browm ; prothorax not much convex, very closely serrate 

 laterally with the anterior angle produced in a sharp, short spine, 

 basal margin carinate and with a narrow supra-basal linear impres- 

 sion, disk covered with closely set granules leaving a smooth, median 

 lozenge -shaped space continued as far as the apex in a smooth line 



