1908.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 585 



slight variation of 0. minutus, which is one of the four species 

 of Onthophagus found in the neighbourhood of Cape Town. 



Length 5-6J- mm. 



Hab. Cape Town, Cape Colony. 



Onthophagus hy^na, Fabric, 

 Syst. Eleuth., 1801, p. 51. 



0. impictus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 203; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 71, 

 teste d'Orbigny. 



Onthophagus minutus, Hausm., 

 Illig. Mag. f. Insekt., vi., 1807, p. 263. 

 O. opacus, Fahr., Catal. i., p. 202. 



This synonymy is due to d'Orbigny (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 1902, p. 70). 



Onthophagus vaeiolosus, d'Orbign., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 76. 



" Opaque, black, glabrous on the upper side ; head very minutely 

 punctulate, slightly rugose in front, more distinctly punctate towards 

 the sides and behind, not carinate, strongly tuberculate between the 

 eyes, clypeus sub-angularly rounded ; prothorax with simple, strong, 

 closely-set punctures, intervals of the punctures sub-rugose, the 

 anterior part is briefly transversely callose, the sides sinuate behind, 

 the base marginate; elytra little deeply striate, intervals plane, closely 

 punctate, the punctures large and slightly granulose inwardly, the 

 intervals between the punctures sub-rugose ; pygidium strongly and 

 closely punctate. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Town." 



This species, which I have not seen, is, according to d'Orbigny, 

 unlike any other. It is easily recognised by its very closely set large 

 punctuation, and especially owing to the very peculiar formation of 

 the punctures of the intervals of the elytra. 



Onthophagus apiciosus, d'Orb., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 92. 



Dark bronze, almost bronze-black in some examples, glabrous on 

 the upper side. Clypeus sub-triangular, the anterior median part 

 which projects considerably is broadly bi-dentate, the margin is 

 reflexed all round; these anterior teeth are less conspicuous, been 



