1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 355 



slender incurved horn, a short sub-laminiforin tooth, truncate at 

 tip, but slightly emarginate in the centre, and about 1 mm. long, 

 and 1 mm. wide; the prothorax has only a faint trace of a short, 

 transverse carina without any trace of lateral excavation, the supra- 

 marginal impression is as in the male ; it is covered with deep, 

 rough punctures, somewhat foveolate in the anterior part, and sub- 

 granulose laterally ; elytra as in the male. 



Length 14-15 mm. ; width 9-9^ mm. 



This species is to be distinguished from C. orloii and C. amijntor 

 by the more convex and shorter elytra, the cephalic horn is more 

 slender, more incurved, and the two hook-like teeth are much more 

 distinct and curve towards the horn, but the most distinctive 

 character is the strong and close punctuation of the prothorax and 

 of the intervals of the elytra. One wonders at Boheman describing 

 them as " crebre mediocriter punctatis." 



Hah. Cape Colony (Knysna, Seymour), Transvaal (Pretoria, 

 Johannesburg), Natal (Durban), Orange Free State (Parys). 



CoPRis SUBSIDENS, n. spec. 



Male : Black, shining ; clypeus broadly emarginate, incised in 

 the centre and with the angles of the emargination triangular and 

 recurved, head deeply and roughly punctured and bearing in the 

 centre a long horn straight from the base to about half the length, 

 slightly bent in the middle, and having behind a basal median tooth 

 and a sharp lateral one on each side above the basal one ; prothorax 

 with the median anterior part sloping a little and very slightly 

 carinate longitudinally in the centre, the upper part of this median 

 lobe is not carinate, but in the centre there are two small teeth, and 

 a longer one at each angle, the excavations are deep and extend to 

 a very short distance from the base, the lateral tooth is very lon^, 

 compressed, and curves outwardly, the lateral anterior part is 

 obhquely sinuate, the anterior part of the lobe and the lateral cavities 

 are slightly punctate, but the punctures at the apex of the median 

 lobe, on the sides and on the dorsal part are deep and closely set ; 

 elytra very convex, deeply striate, striae not distinctly punctate, 

 intervals a little convex, vaguely aciculate ; apical spur of anterior 

 tibiai flattened at tip, straight and with the apical part turned 

 downwards rather than inwardly, but in nowise bendino- out- 

 wardly. 



Length 18 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Female unknown. 



