1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 609 



black macules, 3 at the base, the outer being a humeral one, 

 3 macules in the middle disposed in the shape of a sub-arcuate 

 band, and a single one near the apex ; pygidium obscurely testaceous ; 

 legs piceous. $ > Frontal part plane, sparsely punctate, with three 

 horns on the vertex, lateral horns erect, median one short, truncate ; 

 prothorax sub-retuse in front." 



Hab. Angola. 



Damaraland (Okahandya, Gobabis) teste d'Orbigny. 



Onthophagus variegatus, Fabric, 

 Suppl. Ent. System, 1798, p. 36. 

 0. venustulus, Erichs., Cat. i., p. 213. 

 0. variegatus was erroneously described originally from India. 



Onthophagus suffusus, Klug, Catal. i., p. 262. 

 0. crucifer, Klug., Catal. i., p. 217. 



d'Orbigny states that 0. suffusus is the 2 of 0. crucifer (Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 500). ' 



Onthophagus fritschi, d'Orbign., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 227. 



" Not much shiny, black, sometimes with the head and prothorax 

 bronze-black, or with the elytra rufescent at apex, briefly flavous 

 pubescent on the upper side ; head asperate punctate, clypeus 

 deeply excised, frontal part either not carinate or not distinctly so, 

 arcuately carinate in the female, vertex minutely tuberculate, in the 

 middle but slightly past the anterior margin of the eyes, and beyond 

 that having in the $ a long, reclined lamina, corniculate at each end, 

 and oftener than not transversely sub-tuberculate between the small 

 horns, and having in addition a small tubercle situated in the centre 

 somewhat at the back of the anterior edge of the eyes ; in the 2 

 the vertex is not carinate but tuberculate on each side a little past 

 the eyes ; prothorax not very densely granulate, more frequently 

 depressed and nearly smooth in the $ , briefly arcuately carinate 

 in the 2 , sides often slightly or hardly distinctly sinuate behind, 

 but often sinuate near the anterior angles, base marginate ; elytra 

 sub-finely striate, intervals plane, sparingly granulate ; pygidium 

 sparingly asperate punctate. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Hab. South Africa (collected by Fritsch)." 



This species, according to d'Orbigny, is easily recognised by the 



