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



asperate punctate ; pygidium punctate, the punctures simple and 

 dense. 



Length 1\ mm. 



Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth)." 



Very closely allied, according to d'Orbigny, to 0. cupricollis, Per. 

 Cat. i., p. 246), which differs from it merely by its light coppery, 

 sometimes greenish colour except the elytra, which are testaceous, 

 by the cariniform tubercle of the head w T hich is set more back- 

 wards, and the genae which are a little more projecting and less 

 rounded. 



Onthophagus bicavifrons, d'Orbign., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.. lxxi., 1902, p. 192. 



" Moderately shiny, black, sometimes fuscous, glabrous on the 

 upper side or very briefly flavous pubescent ; head moderately strongly 

 and moderately densely punctate, clypeus rugose, narrowed in front, 

 truncate or sub-sinuate and slightly recurved, frontal part either not 

 carinate or indistinctly so, vertex strongly tuberculate and deeply 

 impressed on each side between the eyes, the impressions nearly 

 smooth or sparsely punctate ; prothorax very densely or sub-densely 

 punctate the punctures on the disk being rounded and simple, 

 sinuate and hardly asperous in front and towards the sides, de- 

 pressed on either side in front with the median part broad, gibbose, 

 the declivous anterior part briefly carinate obliquely on each side of 

 the depression, sides strongly sinuate behind, base marginate and 

 having on each side near the angles a slight cariniform crease weakly 

 crenulate through having a series of large spots situated between 

 the margin and the crease ; elytra broadly striate, intervals plane, 

 not densely granulate, but asperously punctate on the sides ; pygidium 

 moderately densely asperate punctate. 



Length 7-10 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Zululand, Durban) ; also German East Africa." 



d'Orbigny compares this species with 0. impurus, Har. = discolor 

 Klug, of which it is an extremely close ally. 



Onthophagus pinguis, Gerst., 

 Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg., xxxvii., I., p. 50. 



Moderately shiny, bronze-green with the head and prothorax more 

 coppery-bronze; sides of prothorax and elytra, and the whole of the 

 pygidium clothed with fulvous hairs ; antennas flavous ; clypeus 

 broadly triangular, twice as broad at the genae as long, recurved in a 

 somewhat blunt vertical lamina, head without transverse suture or 



