1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South. Africa. 353 



emarginate in the middle, bi-denticulate on each side, and bounded 

 by a somewhat sliallow cavity with a sharp tubercle on the outer 

 side of it, the supra-marginal impression is very distinct, and is 

 edged by a slightly sinuate carina, and the whole surface is punctato- 

 granulose, except a small space behind the dorsal ridge which 

 is closely and deeply punctured ; elytra finely punctato-striate, 

 intervals aciculate ; apical spur of anterior tibiae bifid, with the 

 inner spine bent at right angles inwardly. This is evidently the 

 small development of a form that I have not yet met with. It is 

 larger than the same development of C. contractus, and is easily 

 distinguished from it by the non-incised clypeus^ as well as by the 

 roughly punctured, sub-granular prothorax; from the small develop- 

 ment of G. elphoior it is distinguishable by the nearly equi-distant 

 teeth of the dorsal ridge and of the sub-median cavity, and the stria! 

 of the elytra are punctate instead of being smooth. 



Female unknown. 



Length 17-18 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Hah. Ovampoland (Evari Eiver), Southern Ehodesia (no exact 

 locality). 



COPRIS AMYNTOR, Klug, 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 655. 



C modestus, Bohem., Ins. Caffrar., ii., p. 242. 

 C. coufusus, Bohem., loc. cit., p. 210. 



Male : Black, or piceous red, shining ; clypeus incised in front ; 

 head and clypeus thickly and deeply punctured, in the centre of the 

 head there is a curved, long, or moderately long horn, sharp at tip 

 and having in the posterior part and at some distance from the base 

 two sharp teeth somewhat divaricating ; prothorax quite vertical in 

 the anterior part with the median lobe a little impressed in front 

 and the upper edge slightly emarginate in the middle, and either 

 sinuate on each side of the emargination or more or less distinctly 

 dentate there, the lateral excavations reach from the anterior margin 

 to a small distance from the base, and they are deeply punctate, the 

 anterior part is closely but not deeply punctate, the dorsal part is 

 very closely punctate, and the median longitudinal groove in the 

 dorsal part of the prothorax is very well defined ; elytra smooth, 

 shining, intervals impunctate, striae distinctly punctato-striate ; apical 

 spur of anterior tibise slightly dilated at apex and more or less 

 strongly curved inwardly at tip; the valves of the penis are normally 

 sinuate on the upper side, but there is at the base underneath a 

 membranaceous, fold-like appendage. 



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