1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 595 



and marked above the hind angles with a non-depressed smooth 

 area, strongly bi-tuberculate in front, sides strongly sinuate behind, 

 base non-marginate except in the middle ; elytra moderately striate, 

 intervals plane, sparsely and minutely granulate towards the sutural 

 part, but more densely and also more strongly towards the sides ; 

 pygidium moderately densely granulate punctate. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hah. Barotseland. 



This species cannot be mistaken for any other, it is distinguished 

 by its truncate epistoma, its frontal part covered totally with a fine, 

 simple punctuation ; its green-bronze prothorax, which bears in front 

 two large tubercles, distinguish it from all the others having also the 

 prothorax entirely granulate and a base without fold or an interrupted 

 fold." 



Strictly speaking, this species should not be included in the 

 South African limit, being atrans-Zambesian one. It is most probable, 

 however, that it occurs also on the South African side. 



Onthophagus cribripennis, d'Orbign., 

 Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 134. 



" Sub-opaque, black, sometimes with the prothorax bronze-black 

 in front, or with the elytra minutely marked with fuscous towards 

 the shoulders, briefly pubescent on the upper side ; head closely 

 asperate punctate or rugose granulate ; clypeus rounded or hardly 

 sinuate, frontal part with an arcuate carina ; in the $ the vertex 

 bears a somewhat long, triangular horn situated between the eyes ; 

 in the $ there is a short carina, slightly inversely arcuate and 

 situated a little in front of the posterior margin of the eyes ; prothorax 

 strongly densely and sharply punctate, but more sparingly and almost 

 simply so in the third posterior part of the disk, and sub-impressed 

 in the centre in front in the $ ; sides very slightly sinuate behind, 

 base marginate, but oftener than not the margin is interrupted on 

 each side ; elytra moderately striate, intervals plane and covered 

 with simple, strong, not very close, nor regularly disposed punctures ; 

 pygidium punctate. 



Length 6J-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony; Zululand." 



d'Orbigny says of this species, which is unknown to me, that it is 



noticeable owing to the large, simple, little closely set punctuation 



of the elytra. It is not unlike 0. giraffa, Hausm., which differs 



from it by its larger size, the much more finely and less densely 



punctured prothorax, and the intervals of the elytra which bear fine, 



remote granules. 



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