214 Transactions Soutli African Philosopliical Society, [vol. xii. 



reaching from side to side ; anterior part of protliorax not very 

 sloping, and not excavate nor impressed. 



Length 3-5 mm.; width 2-3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Kowie, Somerset East, 

 East London, Queen's Town, Griqualand West), Natal (Dm-ban, 

 Estcourt), Transvaal (Eustenbm-g, Potchefstroom), Ovampoland ; 

 Southern Rhodesia (Middle Limpopo), Mozambique (Rikatla). It 

 occurs also in Abyssinia, Egypt, Senegal, and Angola. 



OnTHOI'HAGUS SUGIIiLATUS, Klug, 



Plate XXX v., figs. 40-40^. 

 Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 654 ; Peters' Reis., 1862, p. 235. 



0. intermedins, Fahr., Insect. Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 299. 

 0. hyhridus, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 305. 



The description of 0. vcnnstulus applies in all respects to this insect, 

 but the prothorax is not spotted with greenish patches, and is entirely 

 fuscous bronze, and the elytra are more sufi'used with fuscous longi- 

 tudinal bands, but the main distinctive character is the shape of 

 the cephalic horns of the male, which, instead of being vertical, curve 

 inwardly and have on each side of the base an inner tooth ; in 

 the great development there are also two small l3ut sharp median 

 ones in the centre of the median carina uniting the two horns, and 

 nearly adjoining this carina there is a ver}^ minute central sub- 

 conical ti;bercle, which in the figure is made by error to appear as 

 part of the carina; the prothorax is more retuse than in 0. venustnlus, 

 and impressed on each side. The female, except for the colour, is 

 hardly distinguishable from that of 0. vcnustnlns. 



Length 4-5 mm. ; width 2^—3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Somerset East, Graham's Town), Natal 

 (Maritzburg, Durban, Estcourt), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Pretoria, 

 Lydenburg), Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). 



Onthophagus veesutus, n. spec. 



Male : Dark bronze, or sub-a^nescent, elytra fuscous or black, 

 opaque ; legs reddish brown, densely pubescent. Evidently allied 

 to 0. rennstnlns and 0. intermedins ; from the former it differs in 

 the shape of the clypeus the gense of which are not quite as 

 ampliated diagonally towards the junction with the clypeus, the 



