1900.J Cataloijue of the Coleopkm of South Africa. 211 



OxTHOPHACiUS FhAVOIJMHATUS, Klug, 



Monatsb. lieil. Acad., 1855, p. 654 ; Peters' Eeis., 1802, p. 237, 



pi. xiv., li^-. 5. 



Glabrous, shininj^-, fuscous bronze on tlie liead and prothorax ; 

 elytra fuscous and witli a broad flavous band all round except along 

 the base, where, however, there are sometimes a few inconspicuous 

 elongate, slightly rufescent spots ; head impunctate, clypeus very 

 elongate, triangular, truncate at tip and slightly emarginate there at 

 middle, gente oblique and in a Hne with the clypeus, no clypeal 

 carina, but on each side of the basal part there is a short, conical, 

 upright horn ; prothorax convex, finely and densely punctulate, the 

 punctures, however, are not contiguous ; elytra ampliate laterally, 

 faintly geminato-striate, striie filled with very deep punctures, 

 intervals impunctate and costate ; anterior tibiae of male strongly 

 toothed inwardly, apical spur short, nearly straight ; metasternum 

 with a deep, long, sub-median impression. 



This description is made from one of the types. The female, 

 which I have not seen, is probably like the male, minus tlie cephalic 

 horns ; but Klug in his shoi't description does not make tliis clear. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Sena). 



Onthophagus bovinus, Pering., 



Plate XXXV., fig. 35. 



Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. vi., 1892, p. 30. 



Black, with a fusco-a3neous tinge on the head and prothorax, the 

 latter two parts nearly glabrous ; head closely punctulate, gente 

 rounded, sub-auriculate, clypeus long, rounded laterally, very deeply 

 incised in the middle and with the angles of the incision long, sharp, 

 and strongly cui'ved, two frontal carinas, except in the large male 

 development ; club of antennae fuscous ; prothorax convex in the 

 anterior part, but nearly straight laterally, and rounded at base, 

 vaguely sulcate longitudinally near the base and covered with deep, 

 very closely set punctures; elytra moderately ampliato- ovate, 

 narrowly geminato-striate, striae closely punctate, intervals plane, 

 minutely aciculate and having two series of very briefly setigerous 

 granules not set close to one another, second interval hardly wider 

 than the third, humeral callus distinct ; pygidium closely punctu- 

 late, nearly glabrous ; metasternum punctate, median longitudinal 

 impressed line distinct from the l)ase to the median part ; inner part 



