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deep excavation reaching as far as the base of the median lobe, and 

 bounded on the otlier side by a nearly erect, compressed sharp 

 triangular tooth, the supra-marginal lateral impression is oblong 

 and well defined, the truncate anterior part is shining and nearly 

 smooth, except for a few scattered shallow punctures, but the 

 lateral excavations are distinctly punctured except at the base, 

 the dorsal part is also closely punctate all over, and tluire is a 

 distinct impressed and punctured longitudinal line reaching from 

 near the emargination of the median lobe to the basal part ; in the 

 intermediate development, the cephalic horn is straighter, and the 

 meilian prothoracic lobe is not emarginate, the lobe itself not being 

 nmch developed, and it is reduced to a mere indication in the small 

 development; elytra distinctly punctato-striate, intervals feebly 

 aciculate. 



Female : Size and colour of male ; head entirely punctured and 

 bearing a short, sub-quadrate, laminiform horn, 1 mm. broad and 

 li- mm. high, truncate at tip but slightly angular on each side; 

 prothorax retuse in front, and with a transverse, slightly sinuate 

 transverse ridge, dorsal part densely punctured, scabrose laterally in 



front, the impressed line is more or less distinct, but does not reach 



the retuse part ; elytra as in the male. 

 Length 16-17^ mm. ; width 91-10 mm. 

 Hah. Cape Colony (Humansdorp, Kowie, East London), Natal 



(Durban, Estcourt). 



COPRIS MISELLUS, H. SpeC 



Black, shining; head smooth, but clypeus and gense covered with 

 interrupted transverse folds ; in the centre of the head there is a 

 vertical horn without sub-basal angulations or teeth behind, and 

 which in the great development is as high as the vertical ridge of the 

 prothorax ; the latter is not very highly lobate although the lobe is 

 conspicuous, very feebly emarginate in the centre and very slightly 

 sinuate on each side, the excavations are not deep, but the lateral 

 teeth are very well defined, the anterior part, the excavation, and 

 the dorsal part are covered with fine punctures, slightly scrobiculate 

 laterally, but absent in the median dorsal part where the longitudinal 

 impressed line is shallow and not reaching the apex of the median 

 lobe ; in the small development the cephalic horn is very short, the 

 prothorax very briefly retuse in front, the punctures there are a little 

 deeper than in the large one, and the sinuation of the apical part is 

 very slight and similar to that of the female which can only be 



