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and the smooth space on the vertex are two blunt, very short, 

 tubercuHform conical horns with a very small space between them ; 

 antennae piceous, club fuscous ; prothorax moderately convex, some- 

 what retuse, but not impressed in the anterior part ; it is ampliate 

 laterally, rounded at base, marginate all round, has no longitudinal 

 impressed line in the centre, and is covered with scattered, deep, 

 very briefly setigerous punctures ; elytra very ampliate, geminato- 

 striate, intervals slightly raised and having on each side a series of 

 punctures distinct from one another and impinging on the stria, 

 these punctures are hardly setigerous except on the sides, the 

 second interval is not wider than the third, and the humeral callus 

 is not more than ordinarily distinct ; inner part of anterior tibiae 

 spinose ; apical spur moderately long and nearly straight. 



Length 3-3J mm. ; width 2J~2J- mm. 



In some examples the median part of the base is slightly fuscous, 

 the first discoidal black, round spot varies a little in size, and is 

 found at about one-third of the length on the fourth and fifth 

 intervals, and the second one is placed beyond the middle on the 

 second and third intervals ; in one example from Natal the first 

 spot is entirely wanting. 



Hah. Mossamedes, Natal (Malvern). 



Onthophagus talpa, Fahr., 



Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 300. 



0. guttatus, Bohem., Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 114. 



Male : Dark bronze or sub-coppery bronze, shining, elytra a 

 little darker than the head and prothorax, antennae sub-flavescent, 

 elytra with a humeral, broad, reddish patch and an apical one on 

 each side, or entirely without them ; clypeus semicircular but 

 deeply emarginate at tip and with the sides of the emargination 

 recurved and triangular, there is no frontal carina, the clypeus is 

 scrobiculate and the vertex is roughly punctulate and granular, and 

 on the vertex are two tuberculiform horns nearly equi-distant from 

 the frontal carina and from the apex, and uniting sometimes at the 

 base ; prothorax convex, marginate in front and laterally, but not 

 distinctly along the base which is rounded, it is ampliate laterally 

 and is covered with deep, equi-distant, round punctures, and is 

 very briefly pubescent ; in the large development the anterior part 

 is slightly bi-sinuate at apex ; elytra ampliate, very narrowly striate 

 with the striae not distinctly geminate, the intervals are convex, 



