lOi ONTHOPHAGUS LAKVIS. 



angular toAvards the scutellum. Elytra inconspicuously 

 striated, the interstices depressed along the striae, which 

 make the latter appear wider than they really are, and 

 convex in the middle , with a slight rasplike punctuation 

 placed in more or less regular longitudinal series. The pygi- 

 dium densely and strongly punctuated , Avith long yellowish 

 hairs. Under surface of the body pitchy ; the anterior 

 tibiae and the tarsi reddish brown, the antennae ferrugi- 

 neous. (Male). 



This new species should be placed close to 0. incisus 

 Har. ^) and orientalis Har. ^). It differs from them by its 

 much smaller size , irom incisus by the interstices of the 

 elytra which are convex at the middle, from orientalis by 

 the punctuation of the thorax which is much stronger and 

 more rugose. 



A single specimen, captured in October 1877 at Moeara 

 Laboe, has been brought home by the recent Scientific 

 Sumatra-Expedition. 



2. Onthophayus laevis, sp. n. 



Subdepressus , nitidus , niger , pedibus piceis , tarsis , palpis 

 antennisque piceorufis , his clava rufotestacea , capite mar- 

 gine postico tuberculo acuto , thorace dorso antico medio 

 breviter emarginato , postice sulco distincto , elytris sat 

 profunde striatis , interstitiis convexis , laevibus. (ƒ. — 

 Long. 9 mm. 



Body of a somewhat elongated oval shape , slightly 

 depressed on the superior surface; of a shining black color, 

 smooth, the legs of a brownish black, the tarsi, the palpi 

 and the antennae reddish , the club of the latter of a 

 reddish yellow. Head regularly rounded anteriorly, with 

 a very obsolete punctuation , and an arched keel across 



1) Annali del Mitseo Civico di Storia naturale di Genova. Vol. X (1877) 

 p. 52. 



2) Colüoptcrolo(juckti lleftc. IV (1868) p. 83. 



Note» Irom the Leyden IVIuscuin, "Vol. II. 



