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three-fourths of the length ; under side and legs sparsely hairy ; club 

 of antennae flavous ; anterior tibiae of the male very strongly dentate 

 inwardly at tip, those of the female sharply angular. 



Length 15 mm. ; width 9 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Hopefield, Kimberley, Beaufort West), 

 Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Bechuanaland (Kuruman). 



Catharsius troglodytes, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffrar,, ii., p. 225. 



Similar to C. latifrons, and might prove to be after all only a 

 dwarfed race of the same. The difference between the two are : 

 the smaller size, and the non-tuberculate transverse ridge on the 

 head in the male ; the sculpture of the head is similar but not quite 

 so deep or so rough, and the punctures on the prothorax are scabrose 

 only on the lateral part, the impressed line in the posterior part of 

 the disk is quite obliterated ; the elytra are as convex and simi- 

 larly striate and punctulate, but the intervals are quite plane ; 

 antennae and legs as in C. latifrons. 



Length 9^-11 mm, ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Delagoa Bay), Transvaal (Potchefstroom), 

 Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo), Ovampoland (Omrramba). 



Catharsius exiguus, Bohem., 

 Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 111. 



The description of G. troglodytes exactly suits this species which 

 differs from it merely in size, being still smaller, and also in the 

 shape of the clypeus which is deeply incised in the middle, and has 

 the two angles of the incision briefly denticulate. This is the onl}' 

 distinction between this minute species and small examples of 

 troglodytes. 



Length 5J-8-J- mm. ; width 3-5 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Limpopo Eiver), Bechuanaland 

 (Kuruman), Cape Colony (Pella). 



(Species unseen or non-identified.) 



Catharsius philus, Kolbe, 

 Gesellsch. naturforsch. Freunde, Berlin, 1893, p. 113. 

 Male: "■ Similar to C. pitliccius ; black, head and prothorax sub- 



