544 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Scaptobius caffer, Schaum., 



Germar's Zeitschr., iii., p. 262; 



Westw., Thesaur. Entomol, p. 52, pi. 10, fig. 8. 



Black, sub-opaque, usually covered with a terrenous coating ; 

 head with a conical frontal tubercle ; clypeus short, parallel, some- 

 what acuminate in front, truncate and angular, surface strigillate 

 punctate ; prothorax very broadly ampliated angulate laterally in the 

 anterior part, being there one-third broader than long, attenuate 

 thence, but not as diagonally as in the anterior part, to a deep 

 incision with very sharp angle slightly above the much-narrowed 

 base, the median part has a broad and shallow longitudinal sulcus 

 and a moderately deep impression abutting on the margin on each 

 side of it, the surface is variolose-strigillate, each puncture bearing 

 a minute luteous hair ; scutellum strigillate ; elytra broad, sub- 

 parallel, the suture is raised, and there are on each side two dorsal 

 fairly plain costules with shallow transverse impressions, and a 

 third but less distinct one, the intervals and also the shallow 

 impressions of the costse are filled with a slanting strigillation ; 

 pygidium vertical, simple ; tarsi somewhat short ; joints of nearly 

 the same width at apex as at base. 



Length 9|~11 mm. ; width 4f-5f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Somerset East, Mossel Bay), Transvaal 

 (Pretoria). 



Scaptobius natalensis, Bohem., 



Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 53 ; 



Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 53, pi. x., fig. 9. 



Black, little shiny, head convex, clypeus somewhat broadly 

 rounded laterally at apex, and slightly sinuate in the centre, strongly 

 shagreened especially on the vertex ; prothorax of the same shape 

 as in S. capensis, shagreened and somewhat finely granular in front, 

 but with a slanting strigillation in the median longitudinal impres- 

 sion, the discoidal part above the lateral supra-basal incision is 

 not impressed; scutellum strigillate; elytra with. two fairly plain 

 costules on each side, the suture is raised, the dorsal part is finely 

 strigillate longitudinally and the deflexed part strongly coriaceous in 

 the male, strigillate also in the female but with intervening very long 

 variolate punctures breaking the strigillation of the dorsal part ; 

 pygidium with a high longitudinal median carina beginning at the 

 base and reaching the centre ; joints of tarsi moderately elongated, 

 increased at the apex. 



