392 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



lateral part of the base slightly rounded, with the humeral angle 

 sharp, moderately convex, posterior angle well defined ; elytra 

 parallel, striate, with the striae punctulate, the two first intervals 

 plane, the third, fifth, and seventh highly and sharply carinate with 

 the intervening spaces plane, eighth interval slightly convex from 

 about the median part towards the apex, outer margin moderately 

 broad, slightly granulose in the posterior part, three distinct 

 punctures on the posterior part of the third stria ; anterior tibiae 

 bidentate above the digitation. Length 22 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Bredasdorp) . 



I endeavoured in vain to find in S. costipennis some generic 

 characters different from those of Scarites. In spite of its very 

 distinct facies, caused to a great extent by the acute costae on the 

 elytra, the only difference I can find is in the somewhat more 

 quadrate shape of the last seven joints of the antennae, but in S. 

 perplexus the shape of these joints is nearly alike. 



Scarites Epaphius, Chaud., 

 Monogr., loc. cit., 1880, p. 106. 



Black, moderately shining ; head deeply impressed laterally, and 

 with very well-defined regular sinuate plications invading the median 

 part ; maxillae long, sharp, and strong ; prothorax much broader than 

 the head, nearly one-third broader at the apex than at the lateral 

 part of the base, the said lateral part slightly sinuate, and the median 

 one nearly straight and not projecting, disk slightly plicate ; elytra 

 subparallel, a little broader past the middle than at the base, with 

 the humeral angle sharp, moderately convex, striate, with the sixth, 

 seventh, and eighth intervals convex, the eighth reaching the base, 

 outer margin broad, granulose, as is also the humeral part of the 

 base, posterior part of the third stria with two setigerous punctures ; 

 anterior tibiae quadridentate above the digitation. Length 37 mm. ; 

 width 12 mm. 



De Chaudoir in his description mentions a fringe of yellow hairs 

 on the posterior legs. The only example I possess has no fringe. 

 The nearest ally to this species is S. Dogueraui, and I am somewhat 

 inclined to believe that S. JEpaphius will prove to be the male of 

 S. Dogueraui. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand minor). 



Scarites kugosus, Wiedem., 

 Germar's Mag. der. Ent., iv., p. 118. 



S. Dregei, Chaud., Bull. Mosc, 1843, p. 723. 



S. Hopei, Gory, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1833, p. 209. 



Black, moderately shining ; frontal impressions deep, reaching the 



