354 Transactions South African Pliilosoi^hical Society, [vol. xir. 



Female : Colour and sculpture of the male, but the cephalic horn 

 is compressed, short, and more or less deeply emarginate at tip ; the 

 prothorax, which is covered with closely pressed, equal punctures, 

 is either simple or retuse in front, but not lobate, and the upper 

 carinate part is widely tri-sinuate ; the apical spur of the tibiae is. 

 not as broad at tip as in the male, and is horizontal. 



This species is distinguished from C. orion by the punctate clypeus 

 and by the evenly punctured prothorax which is not triangularly 

 emarginate in the centre of the lobe, the latter is therefore straighter 

 and is besides often quadri-denticulate ; the apical spurs are also 

 directed inwards, which is not the case in Orion; from C con- 

 tractus, in which the apical spur is also directed inwardly, it is 

 distinguished by the shape of the median lobe, which in this last- 

 named species is similar to that of C. orion, by the curved cephalic 

 horn, and by the intervals of the elytra which are smooth, whereas 

 in C. contractus they are very distinctly punctate. 



Length 14^15^ mm. ; width 8^-9 mm. ' 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Victoria Falls), Mozambique 

 (Eikatla), Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



CoPRis viCTOKiNi, Boheman, 



Plate XXX., fig. 8, 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 234. 



Black, sub-opaque or moderately shining. 



Male : Clypeus incised in the centre and with the angles of the- 

 projection rounded, but projecting, head covered with very closely 

 set, nearly confluent punctures, and having at about the centre a 

 long, thin, incurved horn, varying in height from 4 to 6 mm., and 

 having behind at about one-fourth of the length two hook- like teeth ;, 

 prothorax not quite vertical in front, the median part quadrate, 

 quadri-dentiaiilate at tip, deeply excavate on each side of the median 

 lobe, and having in the outer angle of the excavation a sharp, tri-^ 

 angular erect tooth, the lateral impression is distinct, and there is 

 a sinuate ridge underneath* the entire surface is covered with very 

 closely set, deep punctures which are somewhat rugose in the anterior 

 part ; elytra very convex and somewhat short, narrowly striate, the 

 striae are impunctate, and the intervals covered with very closely 

 set and deep, round punctures ; apical spur of anterior tibiae bifid at 

 tip and with the inner spine bent at right angles inwardly. 



Female : Head as in the male, but bearing, instead of a. long^ 



