1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa, 55 



sub-opaque, sub-parallel, suture shining, and sub-gibbose at middle, 

 finely shagreened, very finely striate, each interval with a double 

 series of fine but deep punctures ; pygidium deeply and closely 

 punctured ; legs fringed with short, brownish black hairs, anterior 

 tibiae tri-dentate outwardly and with a rudimentary tooth at the base 

 of the digitation, not serrulate outwardly or inwardly, but having a 

 narrow lamina in the inner side reaching from about the middle to' 

 the apex where it ends in a short tooth ; metathorax aculeate at tip,, 

 and having only a shallow impression between the intermediate 

 coxae. 



Length 27-30 mm. ; width 16-18 mm. 



This species varies much in colour, some examples from the Upper 

 Limpopo or Salisbury have the elytra nearly green. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Griqualand West), Orange Free State, 

 Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Mazoe, 

 Buluwayo, Manica). 



(The folloiciiKj species Jiave been described, but hitherto I have not 

 been able to identify them.) 



ScAEABJEUs PUBivENTEis, Lansb., 

 Coleopt. Hefte xii., 1874, p. 5. 



" Black, sometimes piceous, moderately shining ; head six-dentat& 

 with the teeth recurved, a little shorter than broad, closely and 

 rugosely granulate, somewhat smooth behind and having on the 

 vertex a minute tubercle as well as two short inter-ocular ridges 

 directed towards the thorax ; prothorax twice as broad as long,, 

 moderately convex, closely and somewhat strongly granulate and 

 having in the middle a line w^hich expands behind, emits a ramus 

 on each side, and becomes evanescent towards the base ; the rnedian 

 part of the base projects slightly, the outer sides are rounded and 

 crenulate, and the anterior angles denticulate ; the scutellum is 

 distinct ; elytra nearly parallel, longer than broad, hardly punctato- 

 striate with the intervals plane, sub-rugulose and with a few some- 

 what deep punctures ; pygidium triangular, rugulose ; under side 

 shining ; pectus clothed somewhat abundantly with fulvous hairs,, 

 granulate ; abdomen impunctate ; metasternum deeply canaliculate, 

 impressed at base, a little dilated in the anterior part ; anterior 

 femora scabrous, armed with a tooth towards the apical part, anterior 

 tibiae quadri-dentate outwardly, with the basal tooth obsolete^ 

 bi-dentate inwardly, posterior tibiae fringed with fulvous ciliae. 



Length 40-45 mm. ; width 10-35 mm. 



