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slightly ampliated at apex and with the punctures similar to those 

 of the prothorax, but deeper and with the pubescence longer ; 

 abdominal segments impressed transversely along the base and 

 punctulate there, the penultimate one is not so impressed but is 

 punctulate along the base and on the sides, and the last one is 

 punctulate and pubescent all over. This species differs from the 

 other South African ones known to me by the slenderer four inter- 

 mediate antennal joints. 



Length 5--5J mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Dunbrody). Eev. J. A. O'Neil. 



FAMILY SCARABJEIDJE. 



TRIBE COPEINI. 



GEN. ONTHOPHAGUS, Latr. 

 ONTHOPHAGUS PLACENS, n. sp. 



Male : Black, very shiny, glabrous on the upper side, but with 

 the epipleural fold punctulate and with a few fulvous hairs, pro- 

 sternum hairy, legs sparingly hairy, clypeus semicircular but broadly 

 although not deeply emarginate in front, strongly plicate trans- 

 versely, separated from the frontal part by a transverse, not much 

 raised keel extending from one gena to another, far in front of the 

 eyes, frontal part produced into a long, sharp horn sloping back- 

 wards, triangularly laminate for half the length, slender and acute 

 thence ; gense wide, upper part of the eyes very narrow ; prothorax 

 with a marginal fold all round, quite rounded laterally behind, 

 impunctate and with the median part depressed from the anterior 

 margin to two-thirds of the length ; elytra shorter than the prothorax, 

 punctate-striate with the intervals plane and impunctate ; pygidiurn 

 much broader than long, faintly punctulate, glabrous ; sides of the 

 metasternum and episterna with scattered piligerous punctures ; 

 abdomen punctulate laterally along the edge of the segments, 

 femora with only a few setigerous punctures ; anterior femora tri- 

 dentate outwardly and not distinctly serrate above the teeth, inner 

 spur of anterior tibias strongly bent inwardly at tip. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 6J mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). A, Bodong. 



This species is very distinct. 



