1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 341 



opaque, but the latter shining in front and behind ; elytra shining, 

 ebony black ; median part of clypeus very slightly bi-lobate, frontal 

 horn broad, flat, suddenly attenuate towards the apex, styliform, 

 lateral angles rounded ; pronotum finely granulose, with the median 

 part and two round discoidal but posterior spots smooth and nearly 

 impunctate, and having two discoidal ante-median, short, smooth, 

 conical tubercles set close to one another and separated by almost a 

 quarter of the width ; elytra punctato-striate, with the intervals sub- 

 convex and punctulate. 



Length 19-20 mm. 



Female : Very similar, but with the clypeus entire and rounded ; 

 there is a slender frontal carina, with two median tubercles now 

 and then united ; the prothorax, with the exception of the median 

 anterior carina, is totally granulate and has on each side a smoother 

 median furrow. 



Length 18-191 mm." 



Hah. Mozambique (Sena). 



Catharsius calaharicus, Kolbe, 

 ' Loc. cit., p. 142. 



"Black, shining, head and prothorax moderately shining, vertex 

 and posterior part of the latter as well as two discoidal moderately 

 large patches smooth ; head broad, clypeus moderately short, 

 rounded in front with the margin not sinuate, transversely rugose, 

 frontal carina transverse, little raised, straight, and produced at 

 middle into a tubercle ; prothorax broadest at middle, pronotum finely 

 and closely granulose, and having two discoidal smooth areas, 

 posterior part of the back sub-sulcate, no ante-median transverse 

 carina, but there is still a faint trace of one ; elytra finely striate, 

 striae indistinctly punctate, intervals smooth, little convex, sparingly 

 and moderately finely punctate." 



Length 23 mm. 



The author compares this species with G. phidias 2 , from Senegal, 

 of which the nearest ally is C. melancholicus , Boh., and adds : " The 

 species also appears to be nearly related to C. areolatus, Boh., which 

 is described from the female only." I consider the latter as identical 

 with G. tricormttus, and I have shown that the type is not a 

 female. 



Hab. Kalahari .Desert. 



