1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoiotera of South Africa. 319 



near the tip which is truncate and shghtly emarginate ; the 

 transverse carina is very high, situated in the centre of the head, 

 and the two angles are produced into a sharp, not very long, vertical 

 tooth ; prothorax vertical in front, deeply excavated laterally near the 

 anterior angles which are produced into a long process outwardly 

 triangular, the central part of the anterior part projects sub- 

 horizontally as a long triangular lobe the base of which occupies the 

 greatest part of the width and which is dentate on each side at about 

 the median part of the length, and ends in a sharp point, slightly 

 overhanging the base of the head, the upper outer side of the 

 anterior excavations is connected with the apical ridge by a vertical 

 carina, third, fourth, and fifth intervals of the elytra with a basal 

 elongate tubercle, the first of which is sometimes wanting. Although 

 the long, triangular process in the anterior part of the prothorax is 

 generally constant, I have seen large males in which this median 

 process is reduced to a short carina slightly tuberculate at middle 

 and on each side. 



Female : Gense a little rounded and ampliate, clypeus a little less 

 elongate than in the male, more broadly truncate at tip, and with 

 the whole margin more reflexed, anterior part also depressed, but 

 less than in the male, the transverse carina is situated nearer the 

 base, is less raised, and is slightly tri-dentate ; anterior part of 

 prothorax retuse, sub- vertical, apical part very distinctly carinate 

 for nearly all the width, this carina is bi-sinuate, and the anterior 

 angles are moderately rounded and do not project. 



Length 39-52 mm. ; width 24-33 mm. 



This species is met with in the whole Cape Colony except the 

 South-West Coast Districts, from Mossel Bay to Clanwilliam ; also 

 in the Orange Colony, Transvaal, Southern Rhodesia, and Natal ; it 

 occurs along the Eastern African region as far as Somaliland. 



Heliocopris faunus, Bohem., 

 Plate XXXIX., fig. 33. 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 216. 

 S" H. satyrus, ^ohem., Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh., 1860, p. 109. 

 ^ H. operosus, Waterh., Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1891, 

 p. 508. 



Piceous black, with the elytra piceous red, hairs underneath 

 fulvous ; head and prothorax moderately, elytra distinctly shining ; 

 head plicate transversely and transversely scrobiculate behind, 

 clypeus moderately depressed, slightly bi-sinuate laterally, incised at 



