1892.] to the South African Coleopterous Fauna. 25 



Family TROGOSITIDJE. 



Gen. Melambia, Erichs. 



92. M. gigas. Fabric. 



M. maura. Pascoe. 

 I cannot separate M. maura, Pascoe from Senegal examples of M. 



gigas. 



„ from Natal, Transvaal, Zambeze. 



Family LAMELLICORNIA. 



COPRINI. 

 Gen. Pachylomera. Kirby. 



93. P. femoralis. Kirby. 



„ from tbe Zambeze River, Transvaal, Delagoa Bay. 



Gen. Scarabaeus. Linn. 



94. S. aeratus. Gerst. 



„ from Mombassa, East Africa. 



95. S. plausibilis. spec. nov. 



Convexus, niger, capite rugoso-punctato, clypeo sex-dentato, nitido^, 

 ante oculos transverse sub-carinato ; prothorace nitido, granulato, 

 medio disci punctulato lineaque longitudinali levi, marginibus later- 

 alibus crenulatis longeque villosis ; elytris opacis t late striatis, 

 inter stitiis parce sub-punctulatis, callo humerali suturaque nitidis, 

 pedibus nigro pilosis, tibiis anticis quadri-dentatis ; subtus nitidus. 



Long. 27-30, lat. 17-I9 mm . 



Convex, black, with head and prothorax shining ; elytra opaque 

 with a supra humeral protuberance and the suture shining. Head 

 deeply and closely punctured, clypeus with six strong, acute spines 

 and a transverse, little defined, smooth, raised line in front of the eyes ; 

 prothorax very convex, granulated on the sides of the disk and 

 punctured in the centre with a smooth longitudinal line, the outer 

 lateral margins crenated and with a long black villosity ; elytra 

 convex, broadly striated with the intervals moderately convex and 

 vaguely punctured ; underside black, shining ; tibse with long blackish, 

 hairs, the fore-ones strongly quadri-dentate externally. , 



Facies of S. Bonelli, but distinct. > 



