1900.] Catalogue of tlic Coleoptcra of South Africa. 63 



preceding, sub-cylindrical, a little attenuate at tip, and not grooved 

 inwardly ; labial palpi short, thick, the penultimate one is half the 

 size of the one preceding, and the apical one very much narrower 

 and sub-cylindrical ; clypeus six-dentate ; basal joint of antennye 

 longer than the live following, club three-jointed, somewhat globose, 

 the joints fitting into each other ; prothorax very convex, mar- 

 ginafce laterally; elytra hardly convex, slightly gibbose in the middle 

 near the suture past the median part of the disc, Iji-carinate laterally; 

 pygidium nearly vertical; legs robust; anterior tibia3 strongly quadri- 

 dentate outwardly ; posterior and intermediate tibiae dilated at apex, 

 bi-dentate outwardly, and the intermediate with two apical spurs ; 

 tarsi short, broadly triangular, spinose, claws normal ; intermediate 

 coxae diagonal, broadly separated, metathorax produced in a sub- 

 cuneiform process at apex ; body and legs well-nigh hairless ; no 

 sexual difference ; shape of genital armature identical in the two 

 species included in the genus. 



The facies of Sceliarjes is very much like that of some species of 

 Scarabceus. The characteristic differences are : (1) The shape of the 

 antennal club, the last joint of which is smaller than the second 

 and fits into it, the second is also smaller than the third and fits 

 also into it ; (2) the shape of the tarsi ; (3) the presence of two 

 apical spurs on the intermediate and posterior tibiaB ; (4) the broadly 

 separated intermediate coxae. 



Two species of Sceliages are now known to occur in South Africa, 

 and the genus has not as yet been met with anyw^here else. 



Key to tJie Sjjccies. 



Anterior tibiae not curved or dilated inwardly at tip ; antennce 



yellow hippias. 



Anterior tibia? curved and dilated inwardly ; antennns black . . adamastor. 



Sceliages adamastoe, Serv., 



Plate XXX., fig. 9 ; Plate XXXVII. , fig. 35. 



Encyclop. method., x., 1825, p. 351. 



Sceliages jo2MS,Y^estw., Trans. Zool. Soc, ii., p. 159, pi. 29, fig. 1. 

 AteucMcs microceijhaliis (pars.), Bohem , Ins. Cafi'r., ii., p. 174. 

 Sceliages aclccjnastor, Lacord., Gener. Atlas, pi. xxvi., fig. 2. 



Black, shining ; clypeus six-dentate and covered, like the head, 

 with very closely set punctures which are deeper than those on the 

 head ; antennae rirfo-piceous ; prothorax very convex, quite smooth, 

 sharply carinate laterally and in front, outer margin slightly ser- 



