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series of scabrose, very briefly pubescent punctures ; pygidiuui 

 aeneous, closely punctured, pubescent ; metasterninn deeply and 

 moderately closely punctured, median longitudinal line almost 

 obliterated except in the basal part ; " anterior tibiic quadri-dentate. 



Length 3|- mm. ; width 2 mm. 



This description is partly translated from Frihrocus, partly made 

 from the mutilated type in which the head, thorax, and prosternum 

 are missing. It is clearly impossible to recognise this species from 

 the original description alone, which I suspect was made from a 

 female example. Harold gives it as synonymous with O.fuliginosus, 

 Both, from Abyssinia, and includes it in the genus Caccobms. He 

 may possibly have seen the type before it was mutilated. 



Koth's specific name, however, was used for a species from 

 Tasmania described by Erichson in 1842, while Eoth's descriptions 

 appeared in 1851, and I propose to change the name into 0. incertus. 



Ilah. Natal, teste Fahroeus. 



Onthophagus indigus, n. spec. 



Black, opaque, very densely pubescent, head and prothorax slightly 

 aeneous ; head roughly granuloso-punctate, genge rounded or slightly 

 angular at middle, clypeus semicircular, sub-truncate and slightly 

 emarginate at tip, there is a very arcuate frontal carina reaching 

 from eye to eye, and a transverse one of the same height on the 

 vertex, shorter than the frontal one, and equi-distant from it and 

 from the base ; antennae piceous red, clava fuscous ; prothorax 

 ampliate laterally, not very convex, carinate all round but less dis- 

 tinctly along the base than on the outer sides, median part of the 

 base a little acuminate, it is covered with not closely set, equi- 

 distant, very distinct granules, and is slightly depressed in the 

 middle of the basal part ; elytra a little ampliate, very distinctly 

 geminato-striate, striae closely punctulate and shining, intervals 

 plane and having two series of very closely set setigerous granules ; 

 pygidium very closely punctate and densely pubescent ; metasternum 

 aculeate in front, deeply but sparsely punctate, and with the median 

 longitudinal impressed line distinct ; inner part of anterior tibiae 

 a little aculeate at tip in the male, apical spurs slender, curving 

 outwardly in the male, and much less in the female. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2f mm. 



Eesembles O.pilosus, and also 0. ijcrniciosus, and is as pubescent as 

 these two species ; it is, however, smaller even than small examples 

 of the former from which it is at once distinguished by the shape of 

 the clypeus which is hardly emarginate in front, and by the presence 



