1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 611 



broadly striate, intervals plane, sparingly granulate ; pygidium 

 sparingly granulate or sub-minutely granulate punctate. 



Length 5-5|- mm. 



Hab. Transvaal. 



Allied to 0. fritschi, but very distinct owing to the lamina of the 

 vertex of the $ bearing a tubercle which is situated much further 

 behind, near the extremity of the lamina ; in the $ the vertex bears 

 a carina dentate at each end, without a tubercle in the centre, and 

 situated between the anterior edge of the eyes. 



Onthophagus immundus, Boh., Catal. i., p. 220. 

 0. vitulus, Har. nee Fabric, I.e., p. 220. 



I placed 0. immundus, Bohem. (loc. cit.), in synonymy with 

 0. vitulus Fabric. 0. vitulus, described by Fabricius in his Suppl. 

 Est. Syst., 1798, p. 32, however, is described from India, and the 

 name given by Boheman must be kept for the South African species. 

 The character given to it by d'Orbigny (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, 

 p. 235), viz., vertex bearing " in both sexes " a lamina prolonged into 

 a horn at each end, is erroneous. 



Onthophagus versutus, Py., Catal. i., p. 214. 

 0. ocellatus, d'Orbign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 504. 



Onthophagus depressus, Har. Coleopt., Heft, viii., 1871, p. 116. 

 O. laceratus, Per. nee Gerst., Cat. i., p. 236. 



NEW SPECIES OF ONTHOPHAGUS. 

 By D'Orbigny.* 



Onthophagus amplicornis, n. spec. 



Black-bronze or greenish ; the elytra sometimes reddish, upper 

 side with a very short pubescence all over. Epistoma rounded, 

 frontal part without carina or with a very fine one only, vertex with 

 two horns very broad at the base, reduced at times to two large 

 tubercles and having a small median tubercle situated a little more 

 forward ( $ ) ; the vertex entirely simple J ; prothorax with the 

 punctuation uniformly simple, moderately strong and close, the 



* d'Orbigny's descriptions will be given in full in the Annales de la Societe Ento- 

 mologique de France for 1908. 



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