1908.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 579 



Onthophagus bovinus, Per., Cat. i., p. 211. 

 0. lobigena, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 53. 



Onthophagus flavimakgo, d'Orbigny, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 59. 



" Moderately shiny, testaceous, head and prothorax green-bronze, 

 sides of the prothorax and base broadly testaceous ; elytra tessellated 

 with black, the minute macules are round and situated between the 

 granules ; glabrous on the upper side ; head briefly but not con- 

 spicuously flavous pubescent in front, also the sides and apex of the 

 elytra, and the pygidium. Head bi-carinate, finely and densely 

 rugose granulate, but with simple punctures on the vertex ; clypeus 

 rounded, anterior carina set a little before the middle, and sub- 

 arcuate, hind carina set between the eyes but slightly past the 

 anterior margin of the eyes and strongly angulate backwards in the 

 centre ; prothorax with simple punctures moderately dense and 

 moderately deep, somewhat unequal and deeper towards the sides, 

 posterior sides sinuate, base marginate ; elytra somewhat finely 

 striate, intervals plane, sparingly and not regularly granulate ; 

 pygidium not densely punctate. 



Length 7— 1\ mm. 



Hob. Natal." 



This species, which is not known to me, is compared by 

 d'Orbigny to 0. ambiguus, Pering., but the armature of the head 

 differs. I should not be surprised if it proved to be identical with 

 0. -plebejus, Kl. 



Onthophagus limbibasis, d'Orb., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 428. 

 ? Female : " Slightly shiny, head and prothorax bronze-green, base of 

 prothorax broadly testaceous ; elytra testaceous, sprinkled with small 

 black rounded patches surrounding a granule ; pygidium testaceous, 

 glabrous on the prothorax but with the sides briefly flavous-pubescent, 

 on the elytra this pubescence is very short, but long towards the 

 apex and also on the pygidium ; head granulate in the anterior part, 

 simply punctate on the posterior, not carinate, having merely a 

 minute tubercle between the eyes, clypeus rounded ; prothorax 

 simply and sparsely punctate, the punctuation being moderately 

 fine and moderately equal in the centre, but intermixed with plainly 

 larger ones towards the sides, sides sinuate behind, base marginate ; 

 elytra finely striate, intervals plane, sparingly and irregularly granu- 

 late ; pygidium sparingly granulate punctate. 



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