1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 603 



in the posterior half of the disk, anterior part simple, sides sinuate 

 behind, base marginate. Elytra broadly striate, intervals sub- 

 convex, and with a double series of granules ; pygidium strongly 

 punctate. 



Length 4|— 5^ mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Pretoria Distr.), Cape Colony (Vryburg), Orange 

 Eiver Colony (Bloemfontein), Natal." 



This species, which is unknown to me, is compared by d'Orbigny 

 with 0. laviceps, which is not recorded from the South African 

 region. 



Onthophagus insignis, Pering., Cat. i., p. 185. 

 0. guillemei £ d'Orbign., loc. cit., p. 173. 



d'Orbigny records this species (a ? ) from the Congo State, I have 

 received it lately from Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). 



Onthophagus albipodex, d'Orbign., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 170. 

 O. leucopygus, Pering., nee Har., Cat. i., p. 187. 



I identified this species with O. leucopygus, Har., in doing which I 

 made a mistake. The true 0. leucopygus differs from 0. albipodex in 

 having the intervals of the elytra convex and covered with finely 

 spaced asperous punctures disposed on two rows. 



d'Orbigny records this species from the Lake N' Garni ; the 

 examples I have seen are all from Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo, 

 Victoria Falls, Salisbury, Sebakwe). 



Onthophagus leucopygus., Har., Catal. i., p. 187. 

 0. opimus, Pering., loc. cit., p. 189. 



Recorded also from the Orange River Colony (Bothaville), Trans- 

 vaal (?Lydenburg). 



Onthophagus quadraticeps, Har., Catal. i., p. 263. 



Female : This species, which I received quite lately, is like 

 0. leucopygus, and to a certain extent 0. insignis, easily distinguish- 

 able owing to the shape of the clypeus in which the genae are nearly 

 straight or very little ampliated laterally; this, in addition to the 

 broadly transverse anterior part, gives that part of the body a some- 

 what quadrate appearance. The description of Harold (loc. cit.) is 

 very clear, but he has undoubtedly mistaken the ? for the $ , the 

 latter of which I have also not seen. The head and prothorax are 



