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sharply carinate inwardly, but not serrulate on either side ; pectus 

 clothed with black hairs, nietasternum with a broad groove beginning 

 near the apex and ending at a very short distance behind the inter- 

 mediate coxsB, no posterior impression, only a faint longitudinal line. 



Length 24-28 mm. ; width 16-18 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Wor- 

 cester, Eobertson, Tulbagh.) 



ScAEABvEUS CLEEicus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 167. 



Very closel}^ allied to S. honellii, and it seems to take its place in 

 the northern part of South Africa. It is, however, not so robust, and 

 the elytra are a little more parallel ; it is also more shining, but the 

 sculpture of the prothorax is different ; the granulation is finer and 

 more closely set, and instead of there being a broadly triangular 

 smooth space at base, the said space is covered with closely set 

 punctures leaving only a narrow, longitudinal smooth band reaching 

 from the base to the median part, and including a fine depressed 

 line ; the intervals of the elytra are finely but very distinctly 

 shagreened instead of being aciculate, and the double series of 

 punctures are lost in the shagreened surface ; the legs and pygidium 

 are identical, but the metasternum instead of a long, broad groove has 

 only a round, moderately deep impression between the intermediate 

 coxge ; the head has no trace of a median tubercle. 



Length 25-26 mm. ; width 15-16 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Pretoria). 



SCAEAB^US NIGEO-iENEUS, Boliem., 



Plate XXXVIL, fig. 27. 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 165. 



Black, wdth a faint greenish-bronze tinge turning to bronze green 

 in some examples ; head covered with deep, elongate, almost lozenge- 

 shaped punctures very closely set, median part of the head with a 

 slight, sub -conical protuberance; prothorax strongly serrate laterally 

 with the teeth stouter from the anterior angle to past the median 

 part, basal margin with a transverse narrow impression not reaching 

 the outer angle ; it is convex and very closely punctato-foveolate 

 with the intervals finely granulose except in the median part, and 

 has a narrow, smooth, longitudinal line reaching from base to apex 

 and a small diagonal smooth patch on each side, often nearly 

 obliterated, and situated at a short distance from the base ; elytra 



