from Kulu in N.W. India. 11 



Onthophagus furcillifer, n. sp. 



Very near 0. forcipatus (Harold) ; smaller, dull black. Head and retuse 

 front of thorax shining, dark brassy-green. Thorax very convex, closely 

 covered with separate umbilicated punctures, each having a short bristle ; 

 base margined, angularly produced in the middle. Elytra minutely aluta- 

 ceous, faintly crenate-striated, interstices with two (near the base three) rows 

 of setiferous granules. Pygidium elongate, ocellate-punctate, and setose. 

 Antennae and parts of the mouth tawny-red ; under surface shining, brassy 

 greenish black, griseo-setose. Clypeus short, nearly semicircular, sparingly 

 setiferous-punctate. 



(^ major. Frontal carina sharply raised, semicircular ; vertex impunc- 

 tate, polished, with an elevated lamina or broad horn, bifid at the apex. 

 Thorax in front elevated, vertical, smooth, the upper edge of the elevation 

 quadridentate, the middle tubercles a little nearer together than they are to 

 the lateral ones. Anterior tibiae strongly oblique at the apex. Prosternum 

 with distinct transverse suture, but without fovea. 



(? minor. Vertical lamina broader than long ; the rest as in 3' major, 



$ . Head bicarinated ; space between the carinae sparsely punctured. 

 Thorax in front with a slight vertical elevation, the summit quadrituberculate. 

 Long. 6 millim. 



Onthophagus expansicoenis, n. sp. 



Similar in form to 0. taurinus (White) and allies. Yellowish. Head, 

 middle of thorax, suture (sometimes broadly), body beneath (except the 

 yellow pygidiura and borders of the ventral segments), dark brassy-green; 

 antennae light reddish ; femora yellow, tibiae and tarsi pitchy-red ; surface 

 clothed with short bristles, but shining. Head, thorax, and pygidium rather 

 closely, but separately and strongly, punctured. Thorax rounded on the 

 sides, margin sinuated before the distinct but obtuse hind angles ; middle of 

 the base, angular, smooth. Elytra plane in middle, faintly punctulate, 

 striated ; interstices flat, setiferous-punctulated. 



(? . Clypeus triangular, with reflexed and acute apex ; occiput with two 

 suberect horns connected by a scarcely perceptible carina, the base of each on 

 the inside broadly dilated, above which the horn is strongly bent and slightly 

 fiexuous. Thorax convex, in front gradually sloped, smooth, moderately 

 retuse. 



$ . Head more thickly punctured, bicarinated ; clypeus shorter ; apex 

 obtusely rounded. Thorax in front with a moderately prominent median 

 protuberance. Long. 65 — 7^ millim. 



Onthophagus ramosellus, n. sp. 



Near 0. ramosus (Wiedm.) ; mtich smaller, black, slightly shining, gla- 

 brous ; antennae and palpi reddish. Head subsemicircular ; clypeus very 

 feebly emarginated ; front with two arcuated carinae nearly approximated, 

 the anterior sharp and angulated on each side, continuing thence to the 

 margin, — the posterior obtuse, with a conical tubercle in the middle, and at 

 each end armed with an acute simple horn, very obliquely inclined back- 

 wards ; clypeus and genae transversely wrinkled in both sexes. Thorax un- 

 armed, moderately closely punctured. Elytra plane in the middle, crenulate- 

 striated; interstices plane, sparingly punctulated with still smaller punctures 

 intermixed. Pygidium faintly punctured. 



3 . Horns of the vertex subflexuous, reaching in its larger developments 

 beyond the middle of the thorax ; vertex, from the anterior carina to the 

 occiput, impunctate. Thorax laterally compressed, except near the base, and 

 nearly smooth in the long lateral depression. 



5 . Horns of the vertex very short, conical, acute, simple ; space between 

 the carinae rugulose, behind the tubercle polished and sparsely punctulate. 

 Thorax evenlv convex. Lr«ng. 6 — 9 millim. <? , ? . 



