582 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Onthophagus minutulus, Har., Cat. i., p. 263. 

 d'Orbigny, in Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 96, says of this species, 

 the type of which he has examined : " The head has only two very 

 fine carinas dividing it transversely in three parts, the median one 

 being the smaller, the other two being about equal, the anterior carina 

 is arcuate and reaches the suture of the genae, the hind one is 

 straight, much shorter, slightly interrupted in the middle, situate 

 between the anterior edge of the eyes and not occupying much 

 more than a third of the distance. The colour is shiny ebony 

 black, the prothorax has a broad remote punctuation with the ad- 

 mixture of a few fine punctures ; the intervals of the elytra are 

 filled with remote, irregularly disposed granules." 



Onthophagus pauxillus, d'Orbign., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 97. 



" Minute, moderately shiny, black, elytra testaceous, with the 

 juxta-sutural interval, often the basal margin, and sometimes a 

 small macule situate in the third posterior part of the disk black ; 

 briefly flavous pubescent on the upper side. Head wholly as strongly 

 and densely sub-rugosely punctate on the clypeus as on the genae, 

 clypeus sinuate, frontal part arcuately carinate, vertex with a short, 

 straight carina situated in the middle in a line with the eyes; pro- 

 thorax uniformly moderately strongly and densely punctate, the 

 punctures simple ; sides sinuate behind, base minutely marginate ; 

 elytra moderately striate, intervals plane, and irregularly granu- 

 late ; pygidium densely and moderately strongly punctate and with 

 intervening minute punctures. 



Length 2-§— 3^- mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria) ; Cape Colony (Vryburg)." 



d'Orbigny states that this species is closely related to 0. pulhis, 

 Both., which differs from it by the very sparse broad punctuation of 

 the $ , which has only a small horn situate in the centre, while the 

 £ has a singularly arcuate frontal carina situate in the anterior 

 third, and sometimes faint traces of an inverted arcuate carina or of 

 a tubercle situate towards the posterior third between the fore part 

 of the eyes, the prothorax is more broadly and less closely punctate ; 

 the punctures on the pygidium are very big, but also mixed with 

 fine punctures. 



Onthophagus pullus, Both., 

 Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg., xvii., 1, 1851, p. 127. 



0. brevicomis, Fahr., Ins. Caifr., ii., p. 311. 



Head and prothorax fuscous coppery on the upper side, elytra 



