

1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera oj South Africa. 553 



bosses are equally long and parallel ; the pygidium and the sides of 

 the metasternum are much more roughly punctate than in either 

 of the two above-mentioned species ; intermediate and hind tibiae 

 very sharply dentate outwardly en chevron, especially the latter, 

 and sharply acuminate at apex ; hind femora well developed and 

 having underneath near the trochanter a vertical short but very 

 distinct tooth, and towards the middle a broadly triangular very 

 conspicuous one ; the anterior margin of the anterior femora is 

 plainly crenulate. In one of my examples the antennal club is 

 flavescent. Length 9-10J mm. ; width 5|-7 mm inquisitus, n. spec. 



The habitat is not the same. Thus S. intricatus occurs in the 

 neighbourhood of Cape Town, and at no great distance from what is 

 termed here " strand veld," whereas S. bohemam is spread all over 

 South Africa, penetrating into the neighbourhood of Cape Town as 

 near as Worcester ; S. inquisitus is recorded from the Transvaal 

 (Potchefstroom, Plat River), Cape Colony (Vryburg). 



SCARAB^3US PABULATOR, n. spec. 



Black, shiny ; antennae flavescent ; clypeus very sharply six- 

 dentate, the teeth of equal length and well reflexed, in the centre 

 of the frontal part is a fairly distinct longitudinal ridge, and the 

 pubescence of the head and clypeus is fulvous ; prothorax of the 

 normal shape, but not having the appearance of being very much 

 ampliated owing to the elytra being somewhat parallel, covered all 

 over with contiguous fossulate punctures or fossae separated from 

 each other by a narrow smooth interval, the whole forming a some- 

 what regular reticulation ; there is a slightly raised smooth line 

 obliterated in the centre of the disk, and the outer margins are 

 strongly serrate ; the elytra are striate and the striae punctulate, the 

 intervals are tectiform but roundly impressed at equal distance, the 

 impressions being in the shape of an irregular fovea impinging more 

 on one side towards the stria than on the other, thus forming 

 irregular bosses sometimes connected in the dorsal part so as to form 

 wavy ridges, and more shiny than the impressions ; pygidium deeply 

 and somewhat irregularly punctate ; metasternal process plainly 

 aculeate, sides closely punctate and moderately pubescent ; anterior 

 tibiae with four sharp outer teeth, sharply serrulate inwardly, serrate 

 outwardly and fringed with long fulvescent villous hairs ; hind 

 tibiae without any chevron teeth outwardly and fringed with black 

 hairs. 



Length 13-J mm. ; width 8 mm. 



This species, which should follow in the systematic arrangement 

 S. intricatus and its allies, seems to be an intermediate form between 

 them and the group to which S. parvulus, luciduhis, and anderseni 



