234 Transactions South African Fhilosoioliical Society, [vol. xii. 



Onthophagus modestus, Har., 

 Berl. Zeitsch., 1862, p. 403. 



0. 2^U8illus, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 312. 



Coppery bronze, shining on the head and prothorax, elytra not 

 duller, surface briefly but very densely pubescent ; head deeply and 

 closely punctate, gense and clypeus rounded laterally, the latter is a 

 little acuminate, and emarginate at tip but not deeply, and the whole 

 margin is slightly reflexed, there is an arcuate frontal carina united 

 laterally with a short, transverse one in the median part of the vertex 

 between the eyes, and there is also a faint trace of a short basal one 

 in the male, and only a frontal one in the female ; antennae with the 

 club fuscous ; prothorax somewhat convex, ampliate and rounded 

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

 along the base which is rounded, it is covered with deep, round 

 punctures closely set, but not rugose ; elytra ampliato- ovate, finely 

 but deeply geminato-striate, intervals raised in the posterior part of 

 the disk and very roughly punctured, intervals between the punc- 

 tures raised in the anterior part, second interval not broader than 

 the third, humeral callus moderately distinct ; pygidium very closely 

 and deeply pitted ; metasternum punctulate, median longitudinal line 

 moderately impressed ; inner part of anterior tibiae non-spinose at 

 tip, apical spur slender, curving a little inwardly at tip. 



Allied to 0. scahrosus. 



Length 3J mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Maritzburg) , Orange Eiver. teste Fahroeus. 



Onthophagus inconspicuus, Fahr., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 314. 



"Body black, with a sub- violaceous tint ; head sub-rotund and with 

 the sides sub-angulate in the middle, depressed on the upper side, 

 rugosely punctate everywhere and with the margin of the clypeus 

 slightly reflexed, a little sinuate at apex, and having a frontal trans- 

 verse, arcuate carinule ; antennae ferruginous, club sericeous ; pro- 

 thorax twice as broad as long, slightly bi-sinuate at apex, little 

 produced sub-angularly at base, and with the sides moderately 

 rounded and ampliate, convex on the upper side, closely and mode- 

 rately deeply punctate, and obsoletely impressed in the centre of the 

 base ; elytra slightly ampliate before the median part, a little 

 broader than the prothorax, and longer by one-half, base emarginate 

 along the latter, obtusely rounded together at apex, finely geminato- 

 striate, and with the intervals almost plane and having each two 



