BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 145 



Family. SC AR A.BJEI DM. 



Sub-Family. COPEIDES. 



47. Onthophagus planiceps. n. sp. 



Black; antennae, palpi and legs piceous. Head slightly nitid, 



minutely punctate, almost flat, the sides before the eyes roundly 

 expanded and very slightly recurved, the clypeus in the male 

 terminating in a narrow vertical plate ; in the female in a narrow- 

 deep emargination also somewhat vertical. Thorax nitid, finely 

 punctate, broader than the head, rather narrower than the 

 elytra, broader than long, emarginate in front, rounded on the sides 

 and behind, convex, without tuberosity and median line. Elytra 

 opaque, with seven very fine punctured striae on each, the sutural 

 one most distinct. Interstices broad and flat. Fore tibiae strongly 

 quadridentate, somewhat resembling 0. Parryi, Harold. 

 Length, 3 lines. 



48. Onthophagus oleipennis. n. sp. 



Coppery black on head and thorax and under surface, sericeous 

 reddish brown on the elytra. Clypeus large, flat, with a narrow 

 recurved margin, transversely striated with a small emargination 

 in front and a transverse semi-circular carina marking the suture 

 with the head, at the back of the head two short triangular 

 horns, joined by a slightly elevated emarginate plate. The 

 thorax is convex, broad, and densely punctate, a small depression 

 with a small tubercle on each side of it on the anterior part of the 

 middle. The elytra are very faintly striated, the interstices flat, a 

 short carina near the base of the third and two similar ones near 

 the shoulder. The under surface and pygidium clothed with 

 cinereous hairs. 



Length, 4 lines. 



49. Onthophagus retijollis. n. sp. 



Black, subnitid, the elytra subsericeous. The clypeus is like 

 that of 0. oleipennis, but more angular ; the head is more rugosely 

 transversely striolate ; the horns behind are longer and the ridge 

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