1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcya of South Africa. '359 



wliich is laardly discernible from that of C. clpliciior, the cephalic 

 horn is reduced to a compressed triangular tooth 2 mm. long and 

 having a comparatively narrow base, the median lobe is reduced to 

 a sharp carina standing very much in front, and the superior lateral 

 carina is very slightly delined and more distant from the lower one, 

 while the lateral impression is very well defined instead of being 

 obliterated as in the large development ; elytra convex, slightly 

 gibbose at middle and very narrowly striate with the intervals 

 very slightly punctulate.' 



Female (figs. 16, l&a) : The clypeus is hardly emarginate in front 

 iind bears in the centre a compressed laminate horn 4 mm. broad, 

 and of nearly the same height and having a small tooth in the 

 centre, owing to the angles being sharp, this carina is tri-dentate ; 

 occasionally the apical part of the horn expands in a broad, trans- 

 verse process ; the prothorax has a median horizontal lobe slightly 

 arcuate at tip, the anterior part of the prothorax is hollowed under 

 the horizontal median lobe, the lateral impression is very distinct 

 and is edged in the lower part by a sinuate ridge reaching nearly 

 the outer margin ; elytra as in the male. 



Length 20-25 mm. ; width 121-15 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Uitenhage, Graham's Town, 

 East London), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Johannesburg, Boksburg), 

 Natal (Durban, Frere), Northern Damaraland. 



In the examples from Northern Damaraland the striae on the 

 elytra are more deeply punctured than in those from other localities. 



CoPRis GLOBULiPENNis, "Watcrh., 



Plate XXXIII., figs. 1, la; Plate XXXIX., fig. 35. 



Annals and Magaz. Natur. Hist., 1891, p. 512. 



Male : Black, sub-opaque, but with the posterior part of the 

 prothorax shining at times ; head twice as broad as long, incised 

 in the centre, but not deeply, roughly punctured in the anterior part 

 and with the punctures more regular laterally and behind, genae in 

 a line laterally with the clypeus, it bears right on in the posterior 

 part a long, compressed horn moderately slender, distinctly incurved, 

 and 8 mm, long in my examples, this horn is smooth in front but 

 rugulose laterally and distinctly carinate on each side behind for a 

 short distance from the base ; antennae flavous ; prothorax sloping 

 much in front or sub-vertical, either deeply or moderately deeply 

 excavate laterally and having the apical part of the declivity sub- 

 lobate, broadly emarginate at middle with the sides of the lobe 



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