228 Transactions South African Pliilosoiohical Society, [vol. xii. 



Onthophagus vieescens, Har., 

 Coleopt, Heft, ii., 1867, p. 48. 



0. nitichilus, Klug, Monatsb. Beii. Acad., 1855, p. 654; Peters' 

 Eeis., p. 238, pi. xiv., fig. 7. 



Black, shining, glabrous, elytra with a pale flavous lateral band, 

 legs piceous red ; head smooth except on the clypeus which is sub- 

 punctate, clypeus semicircular, deeply emarginate at tip, the frontal 

 carina is distinct ; prothorax a little ampliate laterally but not 

 rounded at middle, convex, margin ate all round and with the base 

 rounded, impunctate except for a few tine punctures on the sides in 

 the anterior part ; elytra ovate, deeply but narrowly striate, striaB not 

 geminate nor punctate, intervals plane, impunctate, second interval 

 not broader than the third, humeral callus not distinct ; pygidium 

 deeply but not closely pitted, and slightly pubescent ; metasternum 

 quite smooth in the centre, median impressed line hardly distinct 

 except at the base ; apical spur of anterior tibise slender, nearly 

 straight. 



Male : Basal part of the head bi-tuberculate, anterior part of the 

 prothorax excavate. 



Female : Vertex without basal carina, prothorax neither excavate 

 nor impressed in the anterior part. 



Length 4|- mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (N.E. Mashonaland), Mozambique (Sena, 

 teste Klug). 



Onthophagus pateicius, n. spec. 



Shining bronze on the head and prothorax, with sometimes a tinge 

 of bronze green, elytra also bronze, moderately shining and having 

 a broad lateral and posterior flavescent band, and densely pubescent ; 

 antennae flavescent, club fuscous ; head very rugose ; genge angular 

 laterally at middle, clypeus deeply emarginate at middle and with 

 the angles of the emargination sharp and a little recurved, in the 

 male there is no trace of a frontal carina, but in the female this 

 carina is visible, and in the centre of the vertex there is a transverse 

 laminate carina occupying in both sexes about one-half of the width, 

 slightly emarginate in the middle and with the outer angles slightly 

 aculeate in some males ; prothorax moderately convex, ampliate 

 laterally, marginate in front and on the sides but not distinctly so 

 along the base, covered with deep punctures divided hj raised, 

 rugose walls which impart to it a very roughly shagreened appear- 

 ance, and densely pubescent, dorsal part with a median longitudinal 

 furrow running from the base to two-thirds of the length ; elytra 



