438 Transactions South African Pliiloso^pliical Society, [vol. xii, 



impunctate but bearing two or three rows of fine, erect, short, greyish 

 hairs reduced to one setulose row in the posterior part, and often 

 rubbed off on the disk, seventh stria stopping short of the base near 

 the humeral angle ; abdomen very briefly pubescent, pectus glabrous, 

 metasternum deeply but finely grooved; anterior tibiae tri-dentate 

 outwardly, apical tooth not very oblique, all three teeth set 

 moderately close to each other, apical spur slender, moderately 

 long. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). Occurs also in Abyssinia 

 and Senegal. 



Gen. SYBAX, Bohem. 



Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 365. 



B.yiJ0])latySj Har. 



Mentum a little attenuate laterally from the base to the tip, deeply 

 emarginate at apex, somewhat concave in the middle, and densely 

 bristly, labial palpi moderately short, joints of nearly equal length, 

 the two basal ones sub-cylindrical, the apical one sub-fusiform, lobes 

 of ligulaB long, broadly divaricating, upper lobe of maxillae normal, 

 inner lobe much longer than in Aphodius but very slender ; joints of 

 maxillary palpi somewhat long, apical one fusiform and slightly 

 truncate at tip ; clava of antennae small ; head more or less deepty 

 emarginate in the anterior part of the clypeus, genae projecting ; pro- 

 thorax convex, very broadly grooved longitudinally in the centre and 

 with the outer margins depressed and marginate ; scutellum narrow, 

 sub-oblong ; elytra convex, acuminate behind, three or four costate 

 with the intervals plane, epipleura moderately broad and quite 

 distinct right to the apical part ; pygidium covered by the elytra ; 

 abdominal segments free ; prosternum not carinate, metasternum 

 very broad and long, quite plane, grooved longitudinally but not 

 impressed ; femora and tibiae compressed, anterior coxae very broad, 

 anterior tibiae broadly dilated internally in the shape of a curved 

 lamina truncate at tip close to the straight, lanceolate apical spur, 

 bi- or tri-dentate outwardly, the two apical teeth being sometimes 

 connate at base, sub-obliquely truncate at apex, intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae somewhat sinuose inw^ardly and having two trans- 

 verse briefly ciliate carinae en chevron ; apical spurs of equal 

 length, moderately short, and not equal in length to the basal 

 joint. 



This genus includes two singular insects, which are covered with 



