356 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Smaller than, but not unlike, C. capensis ; the median lobe of 

 the prothorax is not so sloping, is a little convex towards the 

 anterior outer margin, and is not scrobiculate as in C. capensis, 

 the dorsal median part instead of being smooth is deeply punc- 

 tured. 



Hah. Damaraland. 



COPRIS ANCEUS, Oliv., 



Plate XXXIIL, figs. 14, 14a, 18. 

 Entom., i., p. 116, pi. ii., fig. 14. 

 C. minator, Harold, M. I. Miinch. Ent. Ver., iv., 1881, p. 152. 



Male (figs. 14, 14a) : Black, shining, especially on the elytra ; clypeus 

 distinctly incised in the centre, head rugose and having in the centre 

 a curved horn 5^ to 8 mm. long, carinate laterally in front for nearly 

 half the length, but only near the base in the posterior part ; prothorax 

 sloping in the anterior part, and having a median transverse ridge 

 6 to 7 mm. wide projecting a little above the slope, this ridge is 

 slightly emarginate in the centre and the outer angles are sharp, 

 the whole of the very wide median slope is edged by a sharp carina, 

 and there is a long, oblique, lateral sharp tooth on each side above 

 the lateral impression which is hardly distinct, and has a short 

 longitudinal ridge beneath between the lateral tooth and the outer 

 angle of the median lobe, and at the back of them there is a deep 

 sub-lateral cavity nearly reaching the base, the median part of the 

 anterior slope is roughly foveolato-punctate, the sides and the 

 posterior cavity are smooth, and the upper part of the median lobe 

 is punctate, punctulate or sometimes nearly smooth ; in the median 

 development the median lobe and the lateral tooth are not much 

 developed (this is C. minator, Har.), but in the small development 

 the median lobe is reduced to a carina, and the posterior lateral 

 impression is very little defined ; elytra finely striate, strias distinctly 

 punctate. 



Female (fig. 18.) : Clypeus as deeply incised in front as in the 

 male, head very rugose and bearing a short, sub- triangular tooth; 

 prothorax with a median, not much raised carina set at a short 

 distance from the apex, and an ill-defined lateral sinuation, the 

 lateral supra-marginal impression is distinct and has a short, sinuate 

 ridge underneath, and the surface is roughly granulose, except the 

 part which is punctulate at middle. 



Length 20-25 mm. ; width 12-14 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester, Seymour, Knysna). 



