1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoj^tera- of South Africa. 203' 



thorax sometimes bi-tuberculate, and retuse in front, but oftener 

 not. 



Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3|^-4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester), Natal 

 teste Fahroeus. 



Onthophagus impictus, Fahr., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 293. 



Male : Head and prothorax slightly senescent ; elytra fuscous 

 brown or black, under side black ; it is very little shining, and 

 briefly but densely pubescent ; antennge piceous red, club fuscous ; 

 liead scabroso-punctate on the clypeus which is semicircular and 

 slightly emarginate at tip with the genae rounded, vertex with a few 

 scattered punctures, frontal carina distinct, on the vertex but nearer 

 to the base than to the frontal carina there is a triangular short 

 tooth or sub-conical tubercle ; prothorax shaped as in the preceding- 

 species, but having two small, nearly contiguous tubercles in the 

 anterior part which is also a little more retuse, and is higher than 

 the cephalic horn, it is covered with moderately closely set, slightly 

 scabrose, setigerous punctures ; elytra ovate, deeply geminato- 

 striate, striae deeply punctured, intervals plane, and having each two 

 series of small setigerous granules not set close to one another, 

 second interval a little wider than the third ; pygidium deeply but 

 not closely pitted, and clothed with a long pubescence, metasternum 

 deeply but sparsely pitted in the centre, median longitudinal line 

 distinct ; inner part of anterior tibiae sharply angular at tip ; apical 

 spur long, moderately slender. 



Female unknown. 



Length 4|-5 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp), Natal (Estcourt, Newcastle^ 

 Durban). 



Onthophagus pusio, Fahr., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 311. 



Male : Black, shining, very briefly pubescent ; head covered with 

 very closely set, small, but deep punctures, genae rounded, clypeus 

 semicircular, and bi-dentate at tip, but not incised, no frontal carina, 

 in the middle of the vertex a short, tuberculiform conical horn ; 

 club of antennae fuscous ; prothorax somewhat convex, moderately 

 ampliate laterally, marginate all round, rounded at base, not 

 impressed longitudinally in the middle, nor retuse in the anterior 

 part, and covered with closely set deep punctures scarcely setigerous; 



