214 Transactions South African P]iilosoi)liical Society, [vol. xii. 



reaching from side to side ; anterior part of prothorax not very 

 sloping, and not excavate nor impressed. 



Length 3-5 mm.; v^idth 2-3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Ko^Yie, Somerset East, 

 East London, Queen's Town, Griqualand West), Natal (Durban, 

 Estcourt), Transvaal (Eustenburg, Potchefstroom), Ovampoland ; 

 Southern Ehodesia (Middle Limpopo), Mozambique (Eikatla). It 

 occurs also in Abyssinia, Egypt, Senegal, and Angola. 



Onthophagus sugillatus, Klug, 



Plate XXXV., figs. 40-40rt. 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 654 ; Peters' Eeis., 1862, p. 235. 



0. intermedius, Fahr., Insect. Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 299. 

 0. Jiybrichis, Eahr., loc. cit., p. 305. 



The description of 0. renustnlus applies in all respects to this insect, 

 but the prothorax is not spotted with greenish patches, and is entirely 

 fuscous bronze, and the elytra are more suffused with fuscous longi- 

 tudinal bands, but the main distinctive character is the shape of 

 the cephalic horns of the male, which, instead of being vertical, curve 

 inwardly and have on each side of the base an inner tooth ; in 

 the great development there are also two small but sharp median 

 ones in the centre of the median carina uniting the two horns, and 

 nearly adjoining this carina there is a very minute central sub- 

 conical tubercle, which in the figure is made by error to appear as 

 part of the carina; the prothorax is more retuse than in 0. Tcmistulus, 

 and impressed on each side. The female, except for the colour, is 

 hardly distinguishable from that of 0. venustulns. 



Length 4-5 mm. ; width 2J— 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Somerset East, Graham's Town), Natal 

 (Maritzburg, Durban, Estcourt), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Pretoria, 

 Lydenburg), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Onthophagus veesutus, n. spec. 



Male : Dark bronze, or sub-aenescent, elytra fuscous or black, 

 opaque ; legs reddish brown, densely pubescent. Evidently allied 

 to 0. venustulns and 0. intermedius ; from the former it differs in 

 the shape of the clypeus the gena? of which are not quite as 

 ampliated diagonally towards the junction with the clypeus, the 



