1900.] Catalogiie of the ColeojJtera of SoutJi Africa. 357 



CoPRis CAPENSis, Waterh., 

 Annals and Magaz. of Nat. Hist., 1891, p. 513. 



The description of C. anceus on the whole is applicable to this 

 species which differs in the anterior part of the prothoracic lobe 

 being narrower (it is very broad in C. anceus) and not edged by- 

 conspicuous transverse carina above the anterior outer margin, 

 owing to the median lobe being narrower the excavations are not 

 so close to the outer sides, and the lateral horns or teeth are not so 

 much directed outwards, the median dorsal part is smooth and very 

 faintly grooved longitudinally, instead of being deeply punctured 

 and distinctly grooved. 



The female, which I do not know with certainty, is, according to 

 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, less convex ; the thorax is strongly rugose 

 at the sides with all the posterior part of the disk smooth, the 

 anterior declivity (which is not separated by any distinct ridge) is 

 transversely rugose. 



Length 21^27 mm. ; width 13-14 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch), Natal (Durban). 



COPRIS ELPHENOR, Klug, 



Plate XXXIII., figs. 15, 15a, 19, 19a. 

 Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 655. 



Peters' Eeis. n. Moss., 1862, p. 241, pi. xiii., figs. 8, 9. 



Black, head and prothorax slightly opaque, elytra very shining. 



Male (figs. 19, 19a) : Head very rugose, clypeus slightly incised ; 

 in the middle of the head there is an incurved horn 8 to 9 mm. long 

 in the great development, carinate laterally in front and behind and 

 with the base extending nearly on the whole anterior width of the 

 clypeus ; prothorax very declivous in the anterior part, but with the 

 median part of the declivity bulging a little and having a median 

 minute sharp tubercle, upper side produced into a broad, quadrate 

 process 9 mm. wide, broadly emarginate in a semicircular way, and 

 with the angles truncate and slightly emarginate in the centre, the 

 lateral part of the declivity is very deeply impressed on each side 

 of the median lobe, and there is on each side a sharp carina ending 

 in an acute, moderately long erect tooth, set close to the outer 

 margin in some examples, but in others placed slightly above a 

 parallel, short ridge ; in the smaller development the clypeus is 

 a little more distinctly emarginate with the angles of the emargina- 

 tion projecting a little, the median dorsal lobe is hardly projecting 

 and the outer angles alone are sharply defined, the anterior part is 



