1900.J Catalogue of the Colcoptera of Soutli Africa. 263 



Onthophagus seminulum, Klug, 

 Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 654; Peter's Eeis., 1852, p. 239. 



" Clypeus bi-denticulate, thorax fovcolato-punctate, dai'k bronze- 

 black ; elytra striate, black, feebly blood-red at apex. 



Length 1^ lin. 



Only one example from Sena. Dark bronze with the exception of 

 the elytra which are black ; head with solitary punctures, clypeus 

 produced, emarginate at apex ; prothorax densely punctate ; elytra 

 smooth and striate, black, dark red at the extreme apex ; on the 

 under side which does not otherwise present noteworthy features, 

 are some solitary punctures." 



Hah. Mozambique. 



Onthophagus minutulus, Har., 

 Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschrift, 1875, p. 216. 



" Briefly ovate, shining, sparsely pubescent, black, clypeus 

 rounded, vertex transversely carinate ; frontal part with two trans- 

 verse carinas, prothorax strongly but little closely punctate, elytra 

 finely striate, intervals with asperous punctures nearly bi-seriate and 

 remote. Length 3f mm. 



Eounded, ovate in shape, flattened on the back, with sparse and 

 short pubescence, shining, black, antennae red-brown with greyish 

 club, legs piceous with reddish tarsi ; head rounded in front and 

 having a scattered punctuation, frontal part with the transverse 

 carina obsolete in its middle, giving rise to two small transverse 

 tubercles close together, in front of these a curved ridge on vertex ; 

 prothorax with tolerably coarse but scarcely dense punctuation, 

 slightly emarginate behind ; elytra wdth somewhat opaque lustre, 

 finely striated, intervals plane, the punctures on them are somewhat 

 seriate, and some of the punctures are coarse and not closely set ; 

 pygidium shining, tolerably coarsely and remotely punctate. 



Hah. Kuruman (South Africa). 



This species gives one the impression of being a C'accobms, but it 

 belongs, however, to the present genus on account of its obliquely 

 truncate anterior tibiie." 



Onthophagus quadkaticeps, Har., 



Coleopt., Heft, ii., 1867, p. 52. 



"Male: Sub-elongato-ovate, shining, pilose, green bronze, elytra 



flavous sometimes with longitudinal brown markings ; head densely 



punctate, oblongo-quadrate, clypeus reflexed, not emarginate, trans- 



