1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 313 



clypc'us acuminate, unguliir laterally at middle, slightly emar- 

 ginate at tip, a curved, hamate tooth in the anterior part of the 

 clypeus ; prothorax excavate on each side, and produced in the 

 middle in a triangular sub-horizontal lobe with two sharp sub- 

 horizontal horns at tip marshalli. 



A'. Elytra of male with sinall basal tubercles. 



Clypeus sub-acuminate not sinuate laterally, blunt at tip in 

 the male, rounded in the female, head with a median trans- 

 verse laminate carina, in 'both sexes ; median part of prothorax 

 produced in a long, broad, triangular process sharply dentate 

 ^t base; ? prothorax transverse and carinate in front (pi. 

 xxxii., figs. 1, la) hcaiiadryas. 



Clypeus bi-sinuate laterally, very deeply emarginate at tip and 

 with the angles of the emargination dentate in both sexes, head 

 with two vertical horns in the male, and a transverse carina in 

 the female ; prothorax of i and ? as in Jiamadnjas .. .. faunus. 



Clypeus slightly bi-sinuate laterally and semicircular at tip in 

 the male, acuminate in the female and slightly obtuse at tip ; 

 prothorax of <? deeply excavate laterally, and having in front 

 a median strongly quadri-dentate lobe atropos. 



Gense sinuate, sharply angular at base ; i with a long cephalic 

 horn, prothorax with three horizontal horns in the median 

 part ; ? with a transverse carina on the head, prothorax with 

 a sharp, bi-sinnate carina (pi. xxxii., fig. 5) eryx. 



Clypeus slightly bi-sinuate on each side, and a little emar- 

 ginate at tip with the angles of the emargination a little sharp ; 

 c? anterior part of the head with a short, slightly emarginate 

 horn, prothorax produced into the middle into a very long hori- 

 zontal process with a vertical tooth underneath at about the 

 median part (pi. xxxii., -fig. 4) hamifer. 



Heliocopris gigas, Linn., 



Plate XXXII., figs. 1-1 a. 



Mus. Lud Ulr., p. 16 ?. 



H. isidis, Latr., Mem. Mus., v., 1819, p. 249. 



H. Andcrsoni, Bates, Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 88. 



Piceous or piceous red, not much shining, glabrous on the upper 

 side except in the anterior part of the prothorax which is clothed 

 with long, dense, fulvous hairs ; head plicate transversely, and 

 closely scrobiculate on the vertex and genae ; prothorax very convex, 

 beset with closely set, large granules in the anterior part, scrobicu- 



