1900.] Catalogue of the Coleopteva of South Africa. 363 



covered with deep, closely set punctures equally distributed all over 

 except in the median apical part which is impunctate ; elytra convex, 

 but somewhat elongate, very distinctly striate, and with the intervals 

 covered with very closely set, deep punctures. 



Female : Head as in the male, but the clypeus is more deeply 

 emarginate and the angles of the emargination are sharper and more 

 recurved, the cephalic horn is reduced to a very short, triangular, 

 compressed, tubercle, and at the back of it there is a not much 

 raised transverse ridge ; the prothorax has no trace of median 

 impression or excavation, and the whole surface is punctured ; elytra 

 as in the male and similarly sculptured. 



Length 14-19 mm. ; width 8-11 mm. 



Very closely allied to C. plutus ; the male differs only in the 

 sculpture of the head and prothorax w^hich are entirely covered with 

 closely set punctures, instead of being smooth in the anterior part of 

 the head ; the cephalic horn is longer and the hook at the back of it 

 is situated at about the middle instead of at the base ; in the small 

 development, however, the only distinctive character is the sculpture 

 of the head. In the female the difference in the shape of the 

 cephalic horn is well marked, it being short, almost tuber culiform, 

 instead of being nearly similar to that of the male. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Lower M'Komas River), Transvaal (Lyden- 

 burg, Pretoria), Lower Rhodesia (Salisbury). 



The species was originally described from Nyassaland. 



COPRIS BOOTES, Klug, 



Plate XXXIII., figs. 5, 5a. 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad,, 1855, p. 655 ; Peters' Reis., 1862, p. 241, 



pi. xiii., fig. 10. 



Male : Black, moderately shining on the prothorax, elytra opaque; 

 clypeus broadly emarginate in front, genae in a line laterally with the 

 clypeus, the whole surface of the head is closely punctured, and in 

 the posterior part there is a strong, much curved horn, 8 mm. in 

 length, compressed laterally, and having behind a minute tooth not 

 quite in the median part ; prothorax deeply and broadly excavate in 

 the median part from apex to base, and with the walls produced into 

 front on each side in a vertical horn-like process as high as the tip 

 of the cephalic horn and having in front a very distinct horizontal 

 tooth, the cavity and the outer part of the walls are punctured as 

 well as the base, but there is on each side a broad, supra-marginal 

 smooth space, and the supra-marginal lateral impression is very con- 



