1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 589 



Onthophagus flavolimbatus, Klug, Cat. i., p. 211. 



0. semiflavus, d'Orb. nee Bohem., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., Ixxii., 1902, 

 p. 104. 



0. breviculus, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 440. 



Bronze, very shiny, glabrous on the upper side, antennal club 

 fuscous, elytra testaceous red, with the suture and a broad, arcuate 

 aeneous band, reaching on each side from the humeral part to past 

 the middle, and probably often interrupted ; clypeus elongate 

 arcuate, broadly and somewhat deeply sinuate in the centre, the 

 angles of the sinuation plainly projecting, especially in the $ ; and 

 slightly reflexed, the genae follow the line of the clypeus ; the $ has 

 on the vertex a short, sub-laminate carina with sharp angles and set 

 in a line with the hind part of the eyes, the $ has a similar carina, 

 but at the junction with the clypeus is another and more arcuate 

 one ; the clypeus as well as the genae are very sparingly and some- 

 what remotely punctate in the $ , more so on the sides of the 

 clypeus and on the genae in the ? , but the frontal part is impunc- 

 tate in both; prothorax simple, convex, sides very slightly sinuate 

 towards the basal part the outer angles of which are not quite 

 rounded, but nearly so, and with the base wholly marginate, the 

 whole surface is covered with simple punctures, moderately deep 

 and separated from each other in the anterior and lateral parts by a 

 space equal to their own diameter, while in the dorsal median and 

 posterior part the intervals are wider than the punctures ; no 

 depression in the posterior part of the prothorax ; elytra broad and 

 short, narrowly punctate striate, intervals tectiform and impunctate; 

 pygidium deeply punctate, interval between the punctures as broad 

 as the punctures themselves, glabrous, the basal margin very dis- 

 tinctly triangular ; anterior tibiae of $ mucronate inwardly and with 

 the spur straight, merely angular in the 2 • 



Length 3 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



First recorded from the Transvaal (Pretoria District) by d'Orbigny. 

 My examples are from Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree). 



Onthophagus nanus, Har., 

 Monatsb. Berl. Akad., xliii., 1878, p. 211. 

 O. decipiens, Pering., Cat. i., p. 225 ; teste d'Orbigny, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 442. 



First described from German East Africa. In addition to the 

 two localities I mentioned, viz., Natal (Malvern) and Mossamedes, 

 this species is recorded from Natal (Isipingo, Zululand), Mozambique 

 (Lourenco-Marquez), Nyassaland (Zomba, Blantyre). 



