1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 693 



slender, slightly reflexed, not crenulate, nearly completely rounded, 

 sub-sinuate before the apex, the posterior angles obtusely rounded ; 

 elytra finely striate, the striae indistinctly punctate, the intervals 

 convex, sub-costate and minutely punctulate ; the reflexed edge 

 (false epipleura) moderately smooth, partly punctulate, and the 

 series of punctures abbreviated soon after the extreme apex. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hob. Namaqualand (Steinkopf). 



Tribe COPEINI. 



Gen. ONITICELLUS, Serv. 



0. nasicornis, Per. nee. Reiche ; Boheman nee. Reiche, is pro- 

 nounced, and rightly so, by Arrow (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., i., 1908, 

 p. 180) to be 0. intermedins, Reich. Voy. Galin. Abyss. Insects, 1850, 

 p. 337, pi. 20, fig. 5 $ , b ? . 



Oniticellus pictus, Hausm., Catal. i., p. 164. 



I gave O. formosus, Chevr., as synonymous with O. pictus, Chevr. 

 (Cat. i., p. 164). Arrow, however, states (loc. cit.) that O. formosus 

 " is a West African insect, larger than O. pictus, and differing in the 

 form of the clypeus and other respects. 



Gen. TINIOCELLUS, Per., Cat. i., p. 116. 



A wrongly transposed line in the Key to the Genera of the tribe 

 Coprini (Cat. i., p. 108, line 26) makes me say that in Drepanocerus 

 and Tiniocellus the antennae are 8-jointed. In the description of the 

 generic character I mention, however, that they are 9-jointed. 

 Arrow retains in the genus Oniticellus, T. spinipes, for which 

 my genus was proposed (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., i., 1908, p. 183). 

 But it is the fact of it having 9-jointed instead of 8-jointed antennae 

 as is obtaining in the genera Drepanochirus, Scaptocnemis, Oniti- 

 cellus, &c, which induced me to remove it from Oniticellus. 



Sub-Family APHODIIN.3E. 



Gen. OXYOMUS, Muls., 

 Oxyomus pusio, Kolb., 

 Denksc. Medic. -Naturw. Ges. Jena, vol. xiii., 1908, p. 125. 



" Small, testaceous ferruginous, moderately shiny ; prothorax 

 more shiny, posterior part of head fuscous brown, palpi, antennae 



