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slightly narrower than the pro thorax, the punctures are denser 

 towards the sides, the anterior and posterior angles are obtuse, and 

 it is slightly depressed in the inner part of the fold ; elytra striate, 

 the striae indistinctly punctate, the striae plane, somewhat glabrous, 

 numerously covered with seriate punctures, the external ones being 

 in addition slightly obliquely rugose; epipleura plane, a little con- 

 tracted behind the shoulders, and ending before the very apex. 



Length 11^ mm. 



Hah. Namaqualand (Kammagas). 



Gen. ONTHOPHAGUS, Latr. 



Onthophagus kalaharicus, Kolb., 



Loc. cit., p. 129. 



" Very small ; resembles 0. exiguus, Pering., shiny, elytra splashed 

 with black and red, pygidium steely-black ; head shiny, two-horned, 

 the horns grown from the vertex are straight, parallel, obtuse at 

 apex, sub-dentate inwardly at the middle, and are not united at the 

 base by a carina; frontal part and vertex very sparingly punctate, 

 not carinate, clypeus bi-dentate, the teeth sub-reflex, divided by a 

 sinuation ; prothorax strongly convex, bi -impressed for the reception 

 of the two horns in the anterior part which is profusely but not 

 thickly granulate and punctate, it is indistinctly impressed longi- 

 tudinally in front of the scutellum, the base is entirely marginate, 

 the lateral margins briefly sinuate before the sharp anterior angles, 

 and nearly straight before the posterior angles which are obtusely 

 rounded ; elytra impressed-striate, the striae punctate, the intexwals 

 convex and bearing a series of large punctures ; pygidium sparsely 

 impressed punctate ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, with the margin 

 numerously crenulate between the teeth and behind them, the inner 

 part of the apex is sharply dentiform, and the spur strongly curved. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hah. Kalahari." 



Gen. MACEODERES, ^SYestw.. 



Macroderes mutilatus, Kolb., 



Loc. cit., p. 130. 



Highly convex, black, moderately shiny, head not particularly 



punctate, anterior margin sub-sinuate, nearly obtuse, not dentate, 



sub-sinuate towards the genae ; frontal carina entire, slightly arcuate 



angularly and with the median part higher; prothorax moderately 



densely punctate, the anterior part simple, not impressed, depressed 



longitudinally in the middle of the posterior part, lateral margins 



