1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 575 



sub-flaveseent hair ; pygidium covered with contiguous, deep, mode- 

 rately broad, setigerous punctures divided by a narrow, slightly 

 raised interval ; inner spur of anterior tibiae straight. 



Length 4-6 mm. ; width 2^-3i mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg District) ; Southern Ehodesia 

 (Salisbury, Sebakwe). 



Onthophagus biconifer, d'Orbign., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 527. 



" Shiny, coppery black, glabrous on the upper side, sides of the 

 prothorax, elytra, and pygidium very briefly flavous pubescent. 

 Head sub-finely and sub-densely punctate and having a few large, 

 sparse punctures on the clypeus and on the genae, clypeus truncate, 

 frontal part arcuately carinate, vertex bi-tuberculate between the 

 eyes, and very slightly depressed between the tubercles ; prothorax 

 simply, moderately strongly and moderately thickly punctate with 

 the space between the punctures non-rugose, not sulcate lengthways, 

 not depressed behind the posterior angles, the sides slightly sinuate 

 behind, the base marginate in the centre only ; elytra narrowly but 

 distinctly striate, intervals nearly plane, uniformly, simply, moderately 

 strongly and little densely punctate ; pygidium very strongly and 

 little densely punctate. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal." 



Very closely allied to two species, i.e., 0. bituberans and 0. bidenti 

 from, d'Orb., which have not as yet been recorded from the South 

 African Sub-Eegion. 



Onthophagus quadrimaculatus, Earn-., 

 Eev. and Mag. d. Zool, 1877, p. 8. 



"Ovate, moderately shiny, very briefly fulvous setose, bronzy; 

 elytra with two transverse external red macules, one basal, the other, 

 which is smaller, apical; head briefly rounded; clypeus hardly 

 sinuate, rugulose punctate, frontal part obsoletely carinate, vertex 

 vaguely punctate, bi-tuberculate; prothorax strongly punctate, with 

 the sides sub-angular, roundly dilated and from there slightly sinuated 

 towards the base ; elytra finely striate, intervals plane, hardly seriate 

 punctate and then not deeply ; pygidium strongly punctate ; anterior 

 tibiae tri-dentate. 



Length 4i- mm." 



Originally described from the Schimba Mountain, Zanzibar main- 

 land. d'Orbigny records it from Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



