1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 253 



fifth intervals are raised, and the humeral callus is very distinct ; 

 pygidium very closely punctured and pubescent ; median part of 

 metasternum quite smooth, and slightly grooved in the basal part 

 only. 



Male : No frontal carina, vertex also non-carinate ; inner part of 

 anterior tibiae sharp but not spinose, apical spur straight, thick, 

 curving slightly downwards. 



Female : Clypeus a little more rounded at tip, a frontal arcuate 

 carina not very much raised, no carina on the vertex ; prothorax 

 similar to that of the male ; apical spur of anterior tibiae thick, 

 abruptly truncate at tip and prolonged into a sharp spine inwardly. 



Length 12-14 mm. ; width 7-9 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls, Salisbury, Buluwayo, 

 Mazoe), Ovampoland (Evari Eiver). 



This species is also met with in Nyassaland. 



Onthophagus sapphyeinus, Fahr., 

 Plate XXXVI., fig. 12. 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 278. 



Coppery green, with the elytra coppery red, pubescent, moderately 



shining, antennae flavous ; genae rounded, clypeus semicircular, but 



slightly more blunted at apex in the male than in the female, and 



with the margin slightly curved, it is closely granulose, there is a 



semiarcuate frontal ridge, and on the vertex a slightly raised, smooth 



line with a very short, indistinct tubercle on each side of the base 



above the eye in both sexes ; prothorax convex, ampliated laterally 



at middle, marginate in front and on the sides, but not along the 



base the median part of which is sharply aculeate and depressed, it 



is covered with very closely set, sharp granules, the posterior part 



of the disk is smooth in the middle, and from the median part to the 



apex are two sub-parallel, smooth raised lines ; elytra ampliato- 



ovate, narrowly geminato-striate, intervals very closely and deeply 



pitted, with the punctures confluent, intervals not quite plane, 



second one very little broader than the third; pygidium deeply pitted, 



briefly pubescent and coppery green like the basal part of the elytra ; 



metasternum aculeate and with hardly any punctures in the median 



part except on the sides of the aculeate part. 



I have seen an example from Mozambique in which the elytra are 

 entirely dark blue. The male is distinguished from the female 

 merely in having the inner part of the anterior tibiae spinose ; the 

 apical spur is thick in both sexes, but while it is truncate at apex 



