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•elytra very ampliato-ovate, geminato-striate, intervals plane and 

 covered with several more or less regular series of minvite, scabrose, 

 slightly pubescent punctures ; second interval very slightly narrower 

 than the third, humeral callus distinct ; pygidium closely and deeply 

 pitted ; metasternum punctulate in the middle ; inner part of anterior 

 tibiae spinose at tip ; apical spur long, nearly straight. 



Female : I have not seen the female, but according to Fjiliroeus 

 the vertex of the head is simple, and on the forehead are two trans- 

 verse, arcuate carinules, the posterior one of which is obsolete. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3|- mm. 



Hah. Natal (Maritzbiu-g). 



Onthophagus naso, Fahr., 



Plate XXXV., figs. 13, 13rt. 



Insect. Cali'rar., ii., p. 271. 



MeiaUic green, moderately shining, and with occasionally a slight 

 <5oppery tinge on the head and anterior part of the prothorax, very 

 little pubescent ; antennae flavescent ; head very deeply and closely 

 punctured, genai sub-aculeate at base, diagonally atteniiate, clypeus 

 aculeate, obtuse, strongly recurved at apex and with the recurved 

 part emarginate, there is no frontal carina, and the basal part of the 

 vertex is produced into a somewhat short, triangular compressed horn 

 curving a little forward at tip, and not quite as high as the apical 

 part of the prothorax which is moderately convex, marginate in 

 front and laterally, but only indistinctly along the base which is 

 rounded, it is covered with deep, very closely set punctures, which are 

 slightly scabrose on the sides, and is nearly glabrous; elytra mode- 

 rately ampliato-ovate, narrowly and shallowly geminato-striate, the 

 striaj are closely punctate and violaceous, the intervals plane and 

 filled with numerous very closely set punctures, second interval 

 hardly broader than the third, humeral callus distinct ; pygidium 

 very closely and deeply pitted ; metasternum closely punctate in 

 the centre, and with the median impressed line very distinct ; inner 

 part of anterior tibise not spinose at tip, apical spur moderately 

 slender, nearly* straight in both sexes. 



Male: Anterior part of the prothorax abruptly declivous and 

 having in the median part two small elongated tubercles. 



Female : Clypeal horn rudimentary, anterior part of }n-othorax 

 not retuse, nor tuberculate. 



Length 8-10^ mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Port St. John), Natal (Durban, Maritzburg). 



