1908.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 605 



d'Orbigny, who compares it with 0. quadraticeps, says of it that it 

 differs merely by the more shiny upper part, the intervals of the 

 elytra with granules not closely set, and mostly disposed on longi- 

 tudinal series ; the granules on the prothorax are slightly less 

 fine and slightly less closely set ; and the elytra bear a very fine 

 yellow pubescence. 



Onthophagus impeessicollis, Bohem., Catal. i., p. 188. 

 0. fossicollis, Qued. Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., 1884, p. 275, pi. 8, fig 3. 



This species occurs also in Angola, the French Congo, and German 

 East Africa. 



Onthophagus latefulvus, Orb. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 173. 



Coppery bronze, sometimes with a greenish coppery tinge on the 

 head and prothorax, underside and elytra bronzy, the latter with the 

 base, apex, and sides more or less broadly testaceous- antennal club 

 flavescent ; clypeus rounded with the genae not projecting, slightly 

 emarginate in the centre in front, clypeus closely regulose punctate 

 and granular, especially in the $ ; $ without any frontal carina, 

 vertex with an erect horn, long or moderately long, broad at the 

 base and situated between the eyes, cylindrical in the great develop- 

 ment, triangularly elongated in the smaller, frontal part very sparsely 

 punctulate ; in the $ there is a strongly arcuate, well-raised carina 

 that does not reach the anterior margin of the eyes, and on the vertex 

 an equally long but much more raised transverse one which is occa- 

 sionally produced in the centre, giving it thus the appearance of being 

 then briefly tri-denticulate ; prothorax retuse in front in the $ , the 

 apex of the declivity being sub-bi-tuberculate in the large development ; 

 the declivity is less high but more abrupt in the lesser development, 

 and the apex is more deeply canaliculated and plainly bi-tuberculate ; 

 in the ? the prothorax is only briefly retuse in the centre, which 

 bears two transverse tubercle-like ridges ; in both sexes the posterior 

 part is distinctly furrowed longitudinally behind, the sides moderately 

 sinuate in the posterior part, and carinate like the entire base, the 

 whole, briefly pubescent surface is covered with sharp equi-distant 

 granules separated by an interval equal to their own size ; elytra 

 ampliate, intervals filled with seriate, very closely set granules ; 

 pygidium closely punctulate, somewhat pubescent. 



Length 7-9 mm. ; width 5-5J mm. 



0. pugionatus, Fahr. (Cat. i., p. 192), of which d'Orbigny makes 

 the present species a new variety, is very closely allied to it, 



