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Show 258 MR. G. A. K. MARSHALL ON T H E [Mar. 20, the anterior tibia? slightly curved in the 2 » a little more strongly so in the $ . TYPE, 2 in the British Museum, <5 in the Oxford Museum. N A T A L : Malvern (C. X. Barker). A very distinct little species. The dilated portion of the second interval in the 2 is distinctly flattened and more densely covered with scales. The o" comes nearest to aciculatifrons Boh., but the forehead is not striolate, the scape is much more slender, and the elytra are scarcely inflexed laterally. 19. SCIOBIUS SCAPULARIS Boh. S. scapularis Boh. op. cit. vii. 1, p. 195 (1843). Long. 5|-8, lat. 3-4| m m. Head convex ; forehead not impressed, finely plicate ; eyes not prominent. Rostrum subquadrate, about as long as broad, base trisinuate or biangulate ; gena? not dilated in $ , slightly and roundly dilated in o* ; upper surface plane, finely punctured and distinctly tricarinate, the outer carina? parallel to middle and with a slight outward curve apically. Antennce moderately long, piceous, with fine grey scaling ; scape compressed, broad, distinctly Insinuate and gradually dilated to apex; funicle with the third joint much longer than the first. Prothorax very transverse, distinctly arcuate or even subangulate at base, much narrower and faintly sinuate at apex; sides scarcely rounded, broadest close to base and rapidly narrowed to apex; upper surface slightly convex, rather sparsely set with very depressed and sometimes obsolescent granules, the sides of the disk with a shallow and ill-defined depression ; colour black, with thin whitish scaling which is denser laterally and beneath. Elytra broadly ovate, jointly sinuate at base, sides moderately rounded, broadest before middle ; upper surface convex, the stria? containing distinct punctures which disappear behind middle, the intervals almost plane, of equal width, smooth and without a trace of granules, very finely .iciculate; colour piceous black, with fine thin grey scaling (usually abraded), which is denser laterally. Legs moderate, piceous, with fine grey scaling, the anterior pairs of tibia? slightly more curved in the o*, and with the inner angle a little more produced than in the $ . TYPE, missing; in Ecklon and Zeyher's Collection. CAPE COLONY : Grahamstown (Mrs. G. White, Miss Daly, and Dr. Chew). 20. SCIOBIUS GRISEUS Gyl. S. griseus Gyl. Schonh. Gen. Cure. ii. p. 536 (1834). Long. 6 6-7f, 2 6J-7|; lat. tf 3J-4i, $ 4-4f mm. Head moderately transverse, convex, rugosely punctured, with sparse grey scaling; forehead plane, without impressions; eyes not prominent, Rostrum a little longer than broad, its basal margin arcuate, sides parallel in the basal half; gena? slightly and roundly |