Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society (Volume 12, No. 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... Onthophagus Ebends, Paring., Plate XXXV., figs. 14, 14a. Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc., vol. iv., 1888, p. 97. Fuscous bronze, with a little brighter sheen on the head and prothorax, briefly pubescent, antennae flavous; head closely punctulate on the clypeus, vertex nearly impunctate, genae sub-angular at about the median part, clypeus aculeate, obtuse at tip, and recurved there but not strongly, frontal carina and suture of gena' distinct; prothorax ampliate laterally, distinctly marginate all round, rounded at base, retuse in front in both sexes, although less so in the female than in the male, and more or less strongly bi-tuberculate in the centre of the anterior part, it is very closely scabrose and briefly but deeply pubescent; elytra ampliate, narrowly and shallowly geminate and punctato-striate, intervals plane and filled with closely set minute briefly setigerous granules, second interval not wider than the third, humeral callus distinct; pygidium very closely scabroso-punctate, briefly pubescent; mctasternum closely punctate, median longitudinal line distinct; inner part of anterior tibia non-spinose, apical spur moderately slender, nearly straight in the male, but a little curved in the female. Male: Basal part of vertex produced in a laminate horn broad at base, gradually attenuate as far as the median part, cylindrical from there and curving forward, this horn may be higher than the apex of the anterior part of the prothorax, or reduced to a triangular carina, the two tubercles in the anterior part of the prothorax, which is abruptly declivous, are not close to one another and are more or less sharply conical. Female: Vertex with a basal transverse high carina, slightly aculeate at both ends and also in the centre; anterior part of prothorax le...