lyOO.J Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. li):J 



Hah. Natal (EstcourL, Durban, mouth of Umkomas Eiver), 

 Transvaal (Rustenberg). In the Natal examples fiom the Umkomas 

 r-iiver there is no trace of testaceous patches along tlie base of tlio 

 elytra. 



Onthophagus brfa'icornis, Fahr., 

 Insect. CattV., ii., p. 314. 



O. viriaicolhs ($ ), Fahr., loc. cit., p. 315. 



Black with the elytra and' legs brick-red, moderately shining and 

 briefly pubescent ; geniv straight, clypeus semicircular," deeply 

 emarginate in the centre, and with tlie angles of the emargination 

 moderately blunt ; the edge of the clypeus is slightly recurved, the 

 frontal carina is very slight, and the surface is slightly punctate ; 

 prothorax moderatelj' convex in the anterior part, deeply but 

 moderately closely punctured, ampliate laterally, marginate all 

 round, the median and part of the base is rounded ; elytra 

 slightly elongate, but ampliate laterally past the shoulders, they 

 are finely geminato-striate, the intervals are covered with fine 

 setigerous punctures ; the humeral callus is not very noticeable, 

 and the second interval is hardly broader than the third ; 

 pygidium closely pitted ; metasternum normal ; inner pai-t of 

 anterior tibiae non-spinose. 



Male : Frontal carina hardly distinct ; in the centre of the vertex 

 there is a very short, conical, tuberculiform tooth, and the anterior 

 part of the prothorax is slightly sloping but convex, and is not 

 impressed. 



Female : Similar to the male, but with the head simple. 

 Fahroeus' type of 0. viridicollis is more greenish on the prothorax, 

 but is undoubtedly the female of brevicornis. 



Length 2|~3 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Ilab. Natal (Estcourt, Durban), Damaraland (Nolagi). 



Onthophagus alcyon, Klug, 



Plate XXXY., fig. 27. 



Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1855, p. 623; Peters' Eeis., 1862, p. 233. 



Oniticellus splcndens, Wallengr., Ent. Tidskr., ii., 1881, p. 20. 



Bright green or dark violaceous green, and sometimes, although 



rarely, coppery-red, very shining ; head, prothorax, and anterior 



part of elytra glabrous ; gena3 rounded, clypeus semicircular with 



the margin slightly recurved, the frontal part is nearly smooth, the 



clypeus is slightly punctate in the male, more densely in the female. 



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