1908.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 593 



prothorax, deeply striate, intervals plane, densely granulate ; 

 pygidium closely granulate punctate. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hah. Lake N'Gami." 



Onthophagus teitanicus, d'Orbign., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 121. 



Bronze, somewhat shiny, briefly pubescent on the upper side, 

 elytra black with a very broad, slanting, light testaceous basal band 

 impinging on the three first dorsal intervals more than towards the 

 humeral part, on the sides is a moderately narrow testaceous band 

 sometimes interrupted in the centre, and each interval past the 

 median part of the back is maculated with testaceous ; clypeus 

 arcuate but somewhat produced in the anterior part in the $ , more 

 regularly arcuate in the ? , densely covered with somewhat asperous 

 punctures disposed in transverse rows, gense not incised in the $ , 

 slightly but plainly so in the 5 , frontal part with an arcuate carina 

 on the vertex and a small tubercle in each sex (?), frontal surface 

 covered with deep, closely set, somewhat rugose equi-distant punc- 

 tures ; prothorax simple, little convex, the sides not sinuate, without 

 basal angle and marginate, the margin continued to one-third of the 

 width of the base, no longitudinal median impression on the posterior 

 part of the disk, the whole of which is covered with very closely set, 

 equi-distant and somewhat elongated strongly asperous granules ; 

 elytra plainly broader than the prothorax, narrowly geminate striate, 

 intervals almost plane, the dorsal ones of equal width, and tilled 

 with numerous, irregularly disposed, small granules ; pygidium not 

 as closely granulate as the prothorax, and the granules smaller ; 

 inner angle of anterior tibiae absent in the $ , the spur long, hooked 

 inwardly at tip, sub-mucronate in the ? , the spur straight. 



Length 6J-7-J mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Beira). 



Originally described from Zanzibar and the Zanzibar mainland ; 

 is also recorded from British and German East Africa. 



Onthophagus parumnotatus, Eahr., Cat. i., p. 200. 



d'Orbigny records this species from British East Africa. He 

 proposes the name of var. conjunctus (Ann. Soc. Ent. Er., 1905, 

 p. 454) to those examples in which the testaceous spots have 

 coalesced and cover thus as large or larger area than the black 

 background. I have received this variety from Sebakwe in Southern 

 Rhodesia. 



