58 Transactions South African Philosopliical Society, [vol. xti. 



SCAEAB^US GALENUS, Westw., 



Plate XXX., fig. 8; Plate XXXVII., fig. 28. 

 Trans. Entom. Soc, iv., 1847, p. 226, pi. xvii., fig. 1; Lacord., 



Gener. Atlas, pi. xxv., fig. 5. 



S. paradoxus, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 170. 

 S.westiuoodi, Har. Coleopt., Heft, v., 1869, p. 95. 



Black, sub-opaque with the suture of elytra shining ; head 

 covered with deep, nearly reticulate punctures which do not 

 become much elongated on the edge of the clypeus the two front 

 teeth of which are very elongate and slightly diverging, broadly 

 scooped, rounded at tip, and have underneath a vertical apical very 

 conspicuous spine, and a smaller one, also vertical, in the centre 

 of the sinuation ; prothorax convex, very deeply emarginate at 

 apex on each side, and with a conspicuous, sharp spine on the 

 anterior angle, lateral part serrulate for a quarter of the length, 

 carinate from there to the posterior angle, and with a series 

 of punctures bearing a small fascicle of three or four erect hairs ; 

 the basal margin is slightly carinate and has a series of more 

 closely set setigerous punctures ; it is slightly punctured on 

 the disk, the punctures are not closely set and disappear 

 along the base, and there is also a narrow median longitudinal 

 space reaching from base to apex without any puncture ; elytra 

 slightly attenuate from base to apex, finely striate, the striae deep, 

 the intervals nearly but not quite plane, faintly aciculate, and each 

 with a double series of small punctures, sutural part convex at 

 middle, outer margin with only one supra-marginal carina, which 

 begins at a long distance from the base ; legs slender, intermediate 

 and posterior tibiae very distinctly bi-dentate outwardly, anterior 

 ones rugose, nearly foveolate on the upper side, strongly quadri- 

 dentate outwardly, the basal tooth is, however, smaller than the one 

 following, the space between the penultimate and the last one is 

 much greater than between the two preceding, the penultimate one 

 has a vertical tooth in the centre of the upper side, the outer edge 

 is serrate, the inner part is very conspicuously crenulate, strongly 

 mucronate at tip, and has a sharp, incurved spine under the second 

 outer tooth, the tibia itself is inflexed in the middle, and there is an 

 incurved spine in the upper apical part of the femora which are 

 not deeply grooved and have the upper edge of the grooves serrulate 

 for half the length ; metasternum hardly aculeate at apex, and 

 having an elongate median impression between the intermediate 

 femora, and a shorter and shallower one at base ; pygidium im- 

 punctate. 



