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distinguished by the shghtly bifid and more compressed short horn ; 

 elytra distinctly punctato-striate, intervals vaguely aciculate ; apical 

 joint of anterior tibiae turning outwardly. 



This species is a little smaller than C. orion, and is of the same 

 size as C. amyntor, but slightly more slender; from the former, with 

 which it has in common apical spurs of tibiae outwardly turned, it 

 differs by the punctate clypeus, which is not, however, so dis- 

 tinctly punctate as in G. amyntor, but the only outward specific 

 character is the impunctate dorsal area of the prothorax. The shape 

 of the valves of the penis differs much from that of C, orion, in being 

 distinctly pluri-hamate on the upper apical edge, quite as much so as 

 in C. cassius (vide fig. 36, pi. xxxix.) ; in C. amyntor, in which the 

 upper edges of the valve are normally sinuate, as in C. orion and 

 C. contractus, there is near the base a very distinct process like 

 a vesicular bag. 



Hah. Natal (Durban, Estcourt), Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, 

 Salisbury), Transvaal (Waterberg, Potchefstroom). 



CoPRis OEPHANUS, Guer., 



Plate XXXIII. figs. 9, 9«. 



Voy. Lefev. Abyss. Zool., p. 310, pi. iv., fig. 4. 



G. nept'is, Eeich., Voy. Galin. Abyss., 1850, p. 314, pi. xix,, fig. 3. 



G. troglodytarum, Eoth., Wiegm, Arch., 1851, i., p. 124. 



G. evanidics, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 655. 



G. intncticollis , Bohem., Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 2^3. 



G. gracilis, Waterh., Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1891, p. 518. 



Male : Black or reddish brown ; clypeus incised in front, head 

 punctulate, bearing a slightly incurved horn a little bi-dentate be- 

 hind at the base, and varying in length from 1 to 2 J mm. ; prothorax 

 very declivous in the anterior part, and having a dorsal transverse 

 ridge which is nearly straight in some examples, slightly denticulate 

 at middle in others, and bounded on each side by a depression which 

 does not reach further back than the median ridge, and does not end 

 always in a tubercle in the outer part, the whole surface is covered 

 with closely set punctures ; elytra finely punctato-striate, intervals 

 smooth or faintly aciculate. 



Female : Head with a short, sub-laminiform tooth truncate at 

 tip ; prothorax without any trace of ridge or impression, and with 

 closely set punctures similar to those of the male. 



Much smaller and more slender than G. amyntor; the prothorax 

 is not lobate in the middle, but only carinate in the South African 



