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Show 274 MR. G. A. K. MARSHALL ON THE [Mar. 20, • outer pair parallel to near apex and then curved outwardly ; punctuation and scaling as on the head, but all three carina? bare and impunctate, the apical emargination comparatively shallow. Antennce long and moderately slender, piceous, with fine greenish-white seta?; scape scarcely compressed, distinctly curved and gradually thickened to apex ; first joint of funicle much longer than third, subterminal joints longer than broad. Prothorax transverse, subtruncate at base, narrower and truncate at apex, sides slightly rounded, broadest about middle ; upper surface convex, closely set with low granules, but with three broad smooth lines, the outer ones being oblique ; colour black, the granules bare and shiny, the interstices with green scales which are denser on the smooth spaces. Elytra ovate, of the same shape in the two sexes, subacuminate towards apex, shoulders oblique, sides moderately rounded, broadest rather before middle ; upper surface convex, with deep stria? containing large shallow punctures which vanish behind middle ; the second, third, fourth, and seventh intervals strongly carinate, the carina? being bare, shiny, and subcatenulate, the fifth and eighth intervals similarly carinate in the basal half and the sixth in its apical half, the remaining portions broad and smooth; colour black, the apices of the carina? bare, the rest of the surface, including the stria?, densely covered with metallic pale green or yellowish-green scaling. Legs long and moderately slender, black, with dense greenish-white setiform scaling; the anterior tibia? more curved apically in the o* > but otherwise the legs are similar in the two sexes. T Y P E <$ 2 in the Stockholm Museum. N A T A L : Malvern (C. X. Barker & G. A. K. M.), UpperTongaat R. (C. X. Barker), Howick (Dr. F. Dimock Brown), Karkloof (.las. Bcdl), Drakensberg (G. A. K. M.). A very distinct species on account of its brilliant colouring and carinate elytra. 40. SCIOBIUS SQUAMULOSUS Boh. S. squamulosus Boh. op. cit. vii. 1, p. 194 (1843). Long, tf 5, 2 6 ; lat. d 2, $ 3 m m. Head nearly as long as broad, slightly convex, finely punctured, and with dense greenish-grey scaling; forehead narrow and not impressed ; eyes large and depressed. Rostrum elongate, basal margin arcuate or subangulate, parallel-sided in rf, somewhat narrowed apically in 2 > genae not dilated in either sex, apical emargination small ; upper surface slightly convex, faintly tricarinate, the outer carina? convergent anteriorly, scaling and punctuation as on the head. Antennce long and slender, ferruginous, the apices of the joints infuscate, with fine grey scaling ; scape cylindrical, strongly curved and abruptly clavate; funicle with the first joint about as long as the third, terminal joints subcorneal. Prothorax slightly transverse, truncate at base and apex, the latter distinctly narrower, sides gently rounded, broadest about middle ; upper surface convex, finely and evenly coriaceous |