1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 59 



Length 26-28 mm. ; width 13-14 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp, Kimberley, Prieska) ; Southern 

 Ehodesia (Upper Lhnpopo, Sahsbmy). 



SCARAB.EUS LATICEPS, n. SpeC, 



Plate XXXVII., fig. 30. 



Black, little shining ; head very finely granulose, and having a 

 few shallow punctm^es in the central part, while the anterior part of 

 the clypeus, and also the lateral lobe are covered with long, elon- 

 gated punctures very closely set, the four anterior teeth of the 

 clypeus are moderately long and sharp, and the lateral lobe is 

 extremely elongate and diagonal and the outer edge a little 

 emarginate ; prothorax convex, covered entirely with very minute, 

 closely set, depressed granules, and a few punctures interspersed ; 

 it is very distinctly serrate laterally with the anterior angle spinose, 

 the basal margin has a series of closely set punctures, and there is 

 a fine, depressed, longitudinal line in the median part reaching 

 neither base nor apex ; elytra a little attenuated from near the 

 shoulder towards the apex, moderately gibbose near the suture at 

 base, very finely striate with the intervals very finely shagreened 

 and having a more or less well duplicated series of small punctures ; 

 pygidium shagreened ; legs fringed with brownish black hairs, 

 apical teeth of intermediate and posterior tibiae strong, anterior 

 tibiae quadri-dentate outwardly, but with the basal tooth smaller than 

 the one following, inner side very distinctly crenulate from base to 

 apex where it is mucronate on the upper side, outer edge not 

 serrate from the base to the basal tooth ; metathorax aculeate and 

 having a narrow, elongate impression or rather shallow groove 

 between the intermediate coxae, and an ovate, deep one at base ; 

 the whole of the sides is very closely punctured with the intervals 

 finely granulose. ' . 



This species is at once distinguishable by the elongate shape of 

 the basal lobe of the clypeus. 



Length 26-27 mm. ; width 16-17 mm. 



Hah, Natal (Frere, Durban). 



ScAEABiEUS PLAUsiBiLis, Pering., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. vi., pt. h., 189^, p. 25. 



Black, not very shining, elytra opaque, but with the suture 

 shining ; head broad, striolate except at the base, which is broadly 

 but not ver}' deeply punctured, teeth of clypeus sharp and fairly 



