1900.] Catalogue of the Cokoptcra of South Africa. 207 



densely pubescent, club of antennae yellow ; genae angular at 

 middle, sub-auriculate, clypeus acuminate and with the apical part 

 sharply recurved, and slightly emarginate, very closely punctate, the 

 punctures along the edge of the clypeus are rugose, and there is 

 no trace of frontal carina ; prothorax marginate all round, rounded 

 at base, moderately convex, and covered with nearly contiguous, 

 round, deep punctures ; elytra ampliato-ovate, narrowly and not 

 deeply punctato-striate, the striae geminate and darker than the 

 intervals which are plane and filled with several series of closely 

 set, briefly setigerous punctures, which are sometimes confluent, 

 the second one is a little wider than the third ; pygidium very 

 •closely pitted ; metasternum with a smooth median space and a 

 short impressed line ; inner part of anterior tarsi non-spinose, apical 

 spur moderately slender, nearly straight. 



Male : Base of vertex with a short, triangular, vertical horn, flat 

 at base, sub- cylindrical at tip, but not reaching as high as the 

 anterior part of the prothorax, which is vertical and has at the 

 top two median tubercles not set close to one another. 



Female : Cephalic horn and tubercles on the prothorax quite 

 rudimentary. 



Length 5|— 7^ mm. ; width 3^-4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, in carrion; Paarl), Natal 

 (Durban), Transvaal (Lydenburg), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Onthophagus ditus, n. spec. 



Male : Bronze or coppery on the head and prothorax, elytra 

 iiestaceous and having a cruciform infuscate or dark green band 

 dividing the surface in four more or less quadrate testaceous 

 patches ; head punctulate, transversely folded along the clypeus, 

 genae bulging a little, clypeus rounded laterally, acuminate, deeply 

 emarginate and with the angles of the emargination sub dentate and 

 slightly recurved, there is no frontal carina, but at the base there is 

 a triangular lamellate horn not as high as tlie anterior part of the 

 prothorax, which is convex, ampliate laterally, marginate in front and 

 on the sides but not distinctly along the base which is rounded ; 

 it is covered with round, closely set, very briefly setigerous punctures 

 in the median and basal part of the disk, l)ut the anterior part and 

 the sides are scabrose, and the disk is not grooved longitudinally ; 

 elytra ampliato-ovate, geminato-striate, striae shallow and punctu- 

 late, intervals plane and having two series of setigerous scabrose 

 punctures, second interval not broader than the third, the suture 

 has a broad greenish fuscous band, and there is a transverse arcuate 



