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bi-dentate outwardly and having two apical spurs ; the posterior 

 ones are arcuate and very distinctly serrate on either side ; tarsi 

 short, triangular, spinose on each side, the outer spine longer and 

 more robust than the inner one ; coxae slightly diagonal ; meta- 

 sternum broad, divided from the mesosternum by a sharp carina ; 

 no sexual difference. 



The habitat of the only species included in this genus seems 

 restricted to the extreme south-eastern part of the Cape Colony. 



CiECELLiUM BACCHUS, Fabr., 



Plate XXXVIII., fig. 1. 



Spec. Ins., i., p. 32. 



C. hcmisphcBricus, Pall. Icon., p. 20, pi. B., fig. 23. 



C. lyceuSy Westw., Brit. Cyclop., ii., p. 55. 



C. hacchus Eeiche., Ann. Franc, 1842, p. 81, pi. v., fig. 4. 



Black, shining ; head very broad, gense carinate, clypeus emar- 

 ginate in the centre and having on each side a small horizontal 

 rounded tooth, head and clypeus covered with closely set, round punc- 

 tures ; prothorax very broad and convex, carinate all round, closely 

 but not deeply punctulate, and having no trace of central line or 

 impression ; elytra fitting against the thorax, orbicular, as convex 

 as the prothorax, bi-carinate along the outer margin, the carinae 

 very close to one another, but slightly diverging tow^ards the base, 

 base sub-serrulate, suture not raised ; they are very finely striate 

 with the intervals plane, slightly aciculate, and having several more 

 or less seriate rows of small punctures ; under side rugose and 

 deeply punctured, metasternum wath a deeply impressed median 

 line from between the intermediate coxa^ to the base, and a small 

 ridge on each side of it at the apical part ; legs very little hairy, 

 under side hairless. 



Length 21-46 mm. ; width 20-31 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Knysna, George, Bredasdorp, Caledon, Paarl). 



Gen. SCELIAGES, Westw., 

 Proceed. Zoolog. Soc, v., 1837, j)- 12. 



Mentum ovate, not at all emarginate at tip, lobes of ligula sub- 

 spatulate, densely ciliate, maxillae not very broad, deeply scooped 

 inwardly, upper lobe directed inwardly, inner lobe nearly as broad 

 and not reaching the fringe of the upper one ; first and second joints 

 of the maxillary palpi ob-conic, apical one longer than the two 



