BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 22^ 



rather shorter than the thorax and llattish on the back, with 7 or 

 8 rows of distinct but rather small punctures on each elytron,, 

 the punctures on the Gth row the largest. The pygidium and 

 under surface cinereo-villose. Legs clothed with reddish hair. 



Length, 3| lines. 



Hab. — Cairns. 



This species most resembles 0. furcaticejjs, Masters. 



18. Onthophagus Walter:. 



Black, nitid, the head and thorax coppery -green. Head densely 

 punctate at the ocular angles and on the clypeus, in the male 

 a little triangular in front, and with a rather acute tubercle on 

 each side of the forehead near the eye, in the female a strong 

 transverse ridge immediately above the eyes. The thorax is very 

 large, convex, rounded on the sides and transverse, and very 

 minutely punctured in the male ; the apex is slightly retuse, and 

 above it are two strong obtuse tubercles with a rather deep 

 emargination between ; in the female there is less retuseness and 

 no tubercles ; the median line is visible in both sexes. The elytra 

 are not so broad as the thorax and slightly shorter, and are each 

 marked with 9 punctured striae, with the interstices slightly 

 convex. Pygidium coai'sely punctate, under surface thinly 

 cinereo-villose. 



Length, 3|^ lines. 



Hab. — Cairns. 



19. Onthophagus parallelicornis. 



Black, subnitid. Head finely punctate in front, smooth behind^ 

 extending into a square lamina truncate in the middle, with two 

 upright parallel horns, one at each angle ; the clypeus is large, 

 roughly punctate, and roundly pointed, and reflexed. Thorax 

 transverse, smooth, nitid, finely punctate, without excavation or 

 tubercle in front, the anterior angles advanced and acute, the sides 

 much bulged out, with a fovea in the middle, the base largely 

 rounded. Elytra scarcely so long and not so broad as the thorax^ 



