586 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



probably worn out in several examples of both sexes ; there is no 

 frontal suture or carina in either sex, but there is in both a highly 

 raised carina situated in a line with the median part of the eyes, but 

 not reaching tbe latter; this carina is straight in the $ , and slightly 

 arcuate and less raised in the $ , in which the anterior part of the 

 clypeus is also more plainly plicatulate ; the punctures of the frontal 

 part and the apex are simple, moderately deep, and separated by an 

 interval about equal to their own diameter; prothorax simple, but 

 slightly retuse in front in the large development (<? ), the retuse part 

 bounded at the top by a very faint tubercle ; it is strongly sinuate 

 laterally behind, and the base has a somewhat weak fold in the 

 centre, but that fold or margin becomes very indistinct towards the 

 sides; there is a faint median longitudinal impression above the base 

 which is not angular, and the whole surface is covered with simple, 

 equi-distant punctures separated by an interval equal to their own 

 diameter ; elytra moderately ampliate laterally, narrowly striate, 

 the intervals plane and having each two rows of small, very little 

 asperous, if asperous at all, punctures except towards the apical 

 part where they become more so ; pygidium glabrous and covered 

 with punctures similar in size and arrangement to those of the 

 prothorax ; under side and legs bronze-brown, glabrous. 



Length 6-8 mm. ; width 3-5 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Maritzburg, Durban) ; Southern Rhodesia 

 (Umtali); Mozambique (Feira). The species was originally described 

 from German East Africa. 



Onthophagus confertus, Pering., n. sp., 



0. pusio, Per., nee Fahr., Cat. i., p. 203. 



Black, shiny, glabrous, clypeus with the median anterior part pro- 

 duced into two triangular teeth coalescing at the base, no frontal 

 carina, in the centre of the vertex a small, conical tubercle, some- 

 what transverse at apex, set in a line with the anterior edge of the 

 eyes, clypeal and frontal parts covered with simple punctures set very 

 close to each other, those on the vertex slightly more broadly sepa- 

 rated ; prothorax simple, somewhat abruptly sloping in front but 

 rounded there, covered with deep, simple punctures separated by 

 an interval inferior to their own diameter, sides sinuate laterally in 

 the posterior part, basal fold indistinct in the centre which is some- 

 what angular, the base itself not impressed longitudinally there ; 

 elytra short, being only very little longer than the prothorax, some- 

 what ampliated laterally, the stria' with a double series of somewhat 

 minutely setigerous sub-scabrose punctures. 



I am not satisfied that this species is not identical with 0. pusio J ; 



