from Kuhi hi K.W. ludia. 13 



occiput with a short bituberculated lamina ; clypeus coarsely rugose, fore- 

 head punctulated. Thorax with a short, polished, apical decUvity, retuse in 

 the middle. 



$ minor, Same as ? major, except that the occipital lamina is not 

 elevated, but indicated only by a short carina, and the front of the thorax is 

 convex and punctured to the margin. 



I cannot detect any sexual difference in the anterior tibise 

 and their armature in this species, which is so peculiar in the 

 prominence of the posterior carina of the head in well-developed 

 females. 



Oniticellus imbellis, n. sp. 



Very near the Abyssinian 0. spinipcs (Roth.), from which it differs 

 almost solely in the narrower, more elongate form, and the close confluent 

 punctuation of the thorax ; oblong, narrow, plane above, d;ill coppery or 

 greenish-brassj' brown ; elytra variably lineated and spotted with dull red. 

 The upper surface is clothed with stiff laid pubescence, and the elytra have, 

 in addition, numerous very long and rigid tawny bristles towards the apex, 

 those on the apical declivity being more or less approximated in fascicles. 

 The head is unarmed in both sexes, but the surface forms a kind of shield, 

 which terminates behind the eyes and above the occipital depression in a 

 sinuated edge ; the punctuation is irregular, and there are some conspicuous 

 large points on the clypeus, which latter is rather broadly rounded and 

 sinuated in the middle of front margin. The thorax is elongate-quadrate, 

 slightly convex, and densely confluent punctate, in some parts granulated. 

 The elytra are striated, with the interstices granulated. The legs are longer 

 and more slender than in the typical Oniticelli, the straight tibiae have a few 

 long and distant bristles, without ridges, on their outer edge, and very long 

 apical spm'. 



(J . Anterior tibiae with apex broadly truncated, apical tooth short and 

 scarcely oblique. 



?. Anterior tibiae with long and oblique apical tooth. Long. 7 millim. 



Aphodius fimetakius, Lin. 

 A common European species. Recorded also from Turkistan, 

 Western Siberia, and Northern Africa. 



Aphodius kashmirensis, Sharp, Journ. As. Sc. Bengal, 1878, 



ii. p. 271. 



Found also in Ladak. The species is closely allied to the 

 European A.piceus (GylL), from which it is distinguished chiefly 

 by the strongly crenulate-punctate sulcus of the basal margin of 

 the thorax. 



Geotrupes orientalis, Hope. 



Recorded from many districts in Northern India ; Nepaul, 

 Sylhet, &c. 



Geotrupes kuluensis, n. sp. 



Closely allied to G. orientalis, but distinct from the numerous examples 

 of that species I have examined by the dark brownish brassy colour, and the 

 greater polish of its upper and its black under surface, slightly brassy only 

 on the femora, and also by the nearly smooth thorax (polished or silky sub- 

 opaque), sparingly punctured on the sides, and the absence of the central 

 depression of the scutellum, which, however, retains the submarginal groove 

 of the sides, characteristic of G, orientalis. It is rather smaller, but of 



