1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 259 



marked ; apical spur of antevior til)iiTC moderately slender, not much 

 bent inwardly. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 5f mm. 



Allied to O. giratfe and 0. lutulontus, more especially to the latter 

 from which it is distinguished by the absence of frontal carina, the 

 more elongate and more raised tubercles on the prothorax, and the 

 two series of granules in the intervals of the elytra, which in 

 0. lutulentus are filled with numerous, very closely set scabrose 

 punctures. 



Hah. Transvaal (Rustenburg). 



Onthophagus tellax, n. spec. 



Coppery bronze on the head and prothorax, but opaque underneath, 

 elytra fuscous, densely pubescent ; head covered with confluent, 

 large, scrobiculate punctures, gena3 rounded, auriculate, clypeus 

 sinuate laterally, very deeply emarginate at tip and with the angles 

 of the emargination strongly reflexed and dentiform, no trace of 

 carinae ; prothorax convex, ampliate laterally, marginate in front 

 and laterally, but not along the base which is rounded, it is covered 

 with very closely set granules large in proportion to the size of the 

 insect ; elytra ampliato-ovate, geminato-striate, strite punctate and 

 with the walls slightly raised above the intervals which are scrobicu- 

 late, second interval not wider than the third ; pygidium deeply and 

 closely pitted ; metasternum impressed at base and with the median 

 impressed line distinct ; apical spur of anterior tibiai sharply inflexed 

 at tip. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Closely allied to 0. pilosus, but apart from the size, which is very 

 much smaller, it is distinguished by the larger size of the granules 

 on the prothorax, and also by the intervals of the elytra which are 

 scrobiculate instead of being filled with two series of rounded 

 granules. 



Hab. Transvaal (Klerksdorp). 



Onthophagus consobeinus, n. spec. 



Female: ^Eneous green, shining, very slightly pubescent; head 

 plicate in front, roughly punctato-scrobiculate in the anterior part of 

 the vertex, and more regularly in the posterior part, genaj a little 

 angular at middle, clypeus attenuate diagonally and very slightly 

 sinuate laterally, very deeply emarginate at tip and with the angles 



