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



Copris orphanus, Guer. 

 C. neptis, Reich. Catal. i., p. 350. 

 ? C. trogloihjtarum, Roth. Catal. i., p. 350. 

 C. maccr, Per. Catal. i., p. 343-346. 



Copris evanidus, King, Catal. L, p. 350. 



C. puncticollis, Boh., Catal. i., p. 350. 

 C. gracilis, Waterh., Catal. L, p. 350. 



I give the synonymy of C. puncticollis with C. evanidus on H. 

 Kolbe's authority. 



Copris laticornis, var. minor, Waterh., Catal. i., p. 348. 



C. integer, Per., nee Reich., Catal. i., p. 348. 



The true Copris integer, Reich., has no relation whatever with 

 C. laticornis, var. minor of Waterhouse. 1 was misled by a wrongly 

 identified $ example. 



Copris jacchus, Fabr., Catal. i., p. 358. 



I have received several examples of this species from Senegambia 

 (Upper Senegal River). 



Sub-Family APHODIIN^E. 

 Gen. APHODIUS, Illig. Cat, i., p. 371. 



Al'lionirs THORACIGUS, Roll)., 

 Arch. f. Naturg., xvii., I'M. 



A large species. Oblong, depressed especially on the elytra, head 

 and prothorax fuscous black, the latter with a somewhat broad 

 flavescent lateral margin, elytra and under side luteous, bead very 

 weakly punctate, the punctures obliterated on the vertex, clypeus 



widely truncate in front and with a sharp triangular tubercle in the 

 centre of the frontal part in the J , the frontal part simple in the ? ; 

 prothorax as long as broad, and somewhat wide)- than the elytra and 

 slightly refuse in front in the J , not so in the ? , sub-parallel but 

 slightly wider at the base than at the apex, depressed in the upper 



