BEETLE GENUS ONTHOPHAGUS — HOWDEN, CARTWRIGHT 127 



Pygidium coarsely, sLallowly punctate; each pimctm-e bearing a 

 short, flat, yellow seta, tubercles lacking. Ventral portions of the 

 thorax with scattered coarse punctures, each bearing a long, reddish 

 seta; sui-face between punctm-es smooth and shining. Abdominal 

 segments, except for apical one, havuig across their bases a regular 

 row of coarse pmictures; laterally many of the punctm-es bearing 

 reddish setae. Last segment in male emarginate (narrowed) medially, 

 approximately twice as wide as adjacent segment; last segment in 

 females not narrowed medially, and longer than the combizied length 

 of the preceding three segments. Legs similar for both sexes, except 

 for the foretibia of the male which has its inner apical surface pro- 

 longed into a spine approximately the length of the fu'st tarsal seg- 

 ment; this projection when seen beside the usual tibial spine, which is 

 present in both sexes, giving the apex of the male tibia an unusual 

 bispinate appearance. 



Type. — Present location unknown to us. 



Type locality. — Caffraria, southeast Africa. 



Specimens examined. — 315. 



Distribution. — (See fig. 4, p. 29.) 



Georgia: Lyons, Vidalia, Weuona. flohida: Lake Placid, Sebring. 



Remarks. — This species can be separated from other North 

 American Onthophagus by the sharply emarginate, bidentate, trans- 

 versely tuberculate clypeus. The rough appearance of the pronotum, 

 the crescent-shaped punctures with the flat anterior tubercle, and the 

 short, stubby, yeUow setae all serve to distinguish the species. Also 

 characteristic is the bispinous apical end of the male foretibia and 

 extremely wide last abdominal segment of the female. 



The species is a dung feeder. An extensive series of specimens was 

 collected in the vicinity of Lyons, Ga., on cow dung and at light by 

 the late P. W. Fattig. 



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