1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 391 



ScAEiTES siMOGONUs, Chaud., 

 Monogr., loc. cit., 1880, p. 98. 



Black, moderately shining, general f acies of S. perplexus ; the head 

 is very closely plicate, with the plicae very long and reaching to a 

 short distance from the base ; prothorax not quite so parallel laterally 

 as in perplexus ; elytra very parallel, moderately convex, striate, 

 intervals with a series of small granules along the striae, outer margin 

 broad, densely granulate, intra-marginal interval hardly discernible in 

 the anterior part, five punctures on the third interval, one below the 

 base, two in the median and two in the posterior part ; under side as 

 in the previous species ; anterior tibiae tridentate above the digitation. 



De Chaudoir mentions three punctures only in the third stria, but 

 in the only example I possess of simogonus the five punctures are 

 very distinct ; the basal one is more distant from the two median 

 ones, which are near to one another and separated from the two 

 posterior ones, which are equally distant, by a longer intervals 

 Length 22 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Damaraland, ? Zambezia. 



ScARiTES POLiTUS, Bonelli, 

 M^m. Acad. Tur., 1813, p. 36. 

 S, Icevis, Dej., Spec. Col., i., p. 381. 



Black, subopaque, facies very cylindrical; mandibles long and very 

 acute at tip, frontal impressions deep, but not much plicate ; genae 

 protruding a good deal ; prothorax a little attenuate behind, with the 

 outer sides straight, smooth, faintly undulate, no granules on the 

 lateral part of the base ; elytra cylindrical, nonstriate, the intra- 

 marginal interval alone distinct and overhanging a little at the base 

 the outer margin, which has a series of faint punctures replaced in 

 the anterior part by a faint granulation, which is quite indistinct in 

 the base ; anterior tibiae bidentate above the digitation ; under side as 

 in the previous species. Length 21-25 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape, Stellenbosch, Worcester). 



The mandibles in this species are a little blunt at the tip, that is 

 to say the apical inward hook is hardly noticeable, but although its 

 linear form and smooth elytra approximates it to Macromorphtis, I 

 do not see any reason why it should not be included in the genus 

 Scarites. 



SCARITES COSTIPENNIS. 



Black, subopaque ; head deeply and narrowly impressed laterally, 

 the sulci reaching the median part ; epistoma plicate ; antennae 

 short, the six penultimate joints quadrate, the last one, broader 

 than the others, is subovate ; outer sides of prothorax nearly straight, 



