1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 365 



CoPRis ACHATES, n. spec. 



Male : Black, sub-opaque ; clypeus broadly emarginate in front in 

 the same manner as in C. hootes, head with a very short tuberculi- 

 form horn with a distinct transverse carina behind it, this carina is 

 angular at each end, only the posterior part of the genae and the 

 basal space behind the transverse carina are punctulate, the rest of 

 the head is smooth and impunctate ; prothorax convex, very slightly 

 declivous for a short distance in the anterior part, and having in the 

 ■centre a minute tubercle ; the surface is deeply and equally punc- 

 tured, except along the supra-marginal and basal margins where it 

 is smooth and impunctate, the lateral supra-marginal impression is 

 transversely oblong and very distinct ; elytra convex, but not sub- 

 gibbose, narrowly punctato-striate and apparently impunctate. 



Length 16 mm. ; width 9|- mm. 



Hah. ?N'Gamiland. 



This is evidently a small development of a species in the large 



development of which the cephalic horn is much longer, and the 



prothorax probably more declivous, somewhat in the manner of the 



$ of G. coTnifro7is, but my example is a male, and the prothorax has 



only one median tubercle. 



CoPRis URUS, Bohem., 



Plate XXXIII., figs. 10, 10a, 106. 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p, 229. 



Black, sometimes dark brown, shining. 



Male : Head smooth in the centre and sub-foveolate on the genae 

 and clypeus, the latter is narrowly but deeply emarginate in the 

 centre and sinuate on each side of the emargination, the genae are in 

 So line with the lateral part of the clypeus, near the base of the head 

 there is broad quadrate lamina surmounted by an erect, narrow, 

 cylindrical horn, the whole length reaching to about 4^ mm. ; pro- 

 thorax abruptly declivous and having at the top of the declivity a 

 moderately sharp carina occupying about the half of the discoidal 

 part, but deeply sinuate laterally for a very short distance, and with 

 the outer angle of the sinuation sharply tuberculate, the sides of the 

 anterior declivous part are deeply impressed under the lateral sinuate 

 part of the dorsal ridge, the anterior part arid the sides of the dorsal 

 part are granulato-punctate, but the greatest part of the disk is 

 smooth, and there is a very fine, median longitudinal impressed line ; 

 elytra finely, but deeply striate, intervals very faintly aciculate, nearly 

 smooth. 



