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NOTE XXVI. 

 ON HELIOCOPRIS STÜRLERI, HAROLD 0. 



BY 



Baron E. VON HAROLD. 



I believe not to be mistaken in referring to this species 

 a female specimen of a large Heliocopris having the elytra 

 of an opaque black with a silky gloss , very inconspicuously 

 striated and covered all over by an extremely delicate 

 rugosity. The head is semicircular , with the anterior mar- 

 gin faintly undulated; the vertex flat, granulated, limited 

 anteriorly by a stout transverse keel, faintly tridentate; 

 in front of this keel the profile of the head is gradually 

 inclined towards the exterior border , and is covered all 

 over by a transverse rugosity, in the interstices of which 

 a fine but very distinct punctuation may be observed. The 

 pronotum is granulated all over ; the elevated dorsal por- 

 tion is limited anteriorly by a faintly arched ridge; infe- 

 riorly , along the marginal edge of the sides runs a crest 

 which is provided with long rufous hairs. The pygidium 

 and the lateral margins of the elytra, exteriorly of their 

 lateral crest, are smooth and shining. 



The above described specimen, captured in May 1877 

 at Loeboekh Tarab (Sumatra) , has a length of 60 mm. 

 The Berlin Museum possesses another specimen , also a 

 female, measuring 66 mm., entirely identical with the one 

 that was brought home by the Sumatra-Expedition. 

 Berlin, March 1880. 



1) Coleopterologische Hefte. XVI (1879) p. 225, ^f • 



Notes Ironi tlie Leyden Museum, Vol. II. 



