1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 571 



Originally described from German and British East Africa, this 

 species, identified for me by M. d'Orbigny, reaches Southern 

 Ehodesia (Plumtree). 



Sub-Gen. DIAGLYPTUS, d'Orb., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 15. 



DlAGLYPTUS MULTIFIDUS, n. Sp. 



Very small, black ; upper side entirely clothed with moderately 

 long erect and very scattered seta?. Epistoma divided into five 

 small teeth set about equally apart ; head completely smooth, covered 

 with an extremely closely set punctuation ; prothorax uniformly 

 covered with a simple, moderately fine, deep and very closely set 

 punctuation, the sides are sinuate close to the posterior angles, the 

 base is without fold ; elytral intervals with a simple, closely set and 

 deep punctuation. 



Long. 2-2-2-5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony. 



H. d'Orbigny. 



Gen. ONTHOPHAGUS. 



Onthophagus bufovibens, d'Orb., 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov., xli., 1904, p. 266. 



" Minute, somewhat shiny, entirely testaceous, head and prothorax 

 greenish; upper side flavous pubescent. Head strongly and densely 

 rugose punctate with a few minute punctures intermixed in the 

 frontal part ; clypeus slightly sinuate, frontal part with a somewhat 

 short ridge, vertex with a straight ridge situated between the anterior 

 margins of the eyes, angularly bent on each side, and obliquely 

 produced forward between the frontal part and the temples ; the 

 whole of the prothorax simply, strongly and densely punctate, 

 intervals of punctures slightly rugose, the posterior part is sub- 

 impressed longitudinally in the centre, sides very slightly sinuate 

 behind, base non-marginate ; elytra with slender striae, intervals 

 moderately strongly, moderately densely punctate, and moderately 

 raised longitudinally in the middle ; pygidium closely and strongly 

 punctate. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



This species cannot be mistaken for any one of those in which the 

 punctuation of the prothorax is simple, and the base non-folded ; it 

 is easily distinguished by its small size, its entirely testaceous colour 

 with, however, a green sheen on the bead and prothorax ; this latter 



