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tarsi ; femora produced into a dilated tooth in the centre in the 

 males of some species. No visible sutural ridges. Head not 

 distinctly elongated. 



jmncticollis (type), Latr., Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. v. p. 7, 1. 18. 



laticollis, Linn., Syst. Nat. 2, p. 549, 38. 



variolosus, Fb., Mant. Ins. i. p. 16. 



semipunctatus, Fb., Ent. Syst. i. 63, 207. 



Parateuchus, g. nov. 

 Body flatter than any of the preceding, hardly convex, flat on 

 disc. Thorax wider than abdomen ; sides subparallel, rather 

 narrower towards apex. Pygidium small, curving inwards at 

 apex. Clypeus produced in front, 6-dentate ; teeth regular and 

 pointed. Lateral margins of thorax rounded ; posterior margin 

 rounded. Prosternal keel produced to an obtuse point. Anterior 

 tibiffi long, slightly curving inwards at tips ; teeth regular and 

 similar ; terminal spine rather short and sharp. Hind legs long 

 and slender ; tarsi very elongated. 

 morhillosus (type), Fabr., Ent. Syst. i. p. 63 ; Syst. El. i. p. 56. 

 Guinea ; Gambia. 



ONTHOPHAGUS: COKKECTION IN NOMENCLATUEE. 

 By John W. Shipp. 



ONTHOPHAGUS, Lcitr. 



Biplagiatus, Thomson, Archives, Entom. xi. p. 54, 1858. 

 Peringueyi, Shipp. 



= hiplagiatus, Peringuey, Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. iv. 

 pt. 11, p. 99, 1886. 

 Peringueiji, Shipp {hiplagiatiis, Peringuey, nee Thomson). 



Head broader than long, punctured, with a short transverse 

 ridge in the centre, and another on the clypeus, a little more 

 raised than the first, and reaching nearly from one eye to the 

 other ; clypeus produced in front, with well-defined recurved 

 margin, rounded apically and with a small indent in the centre, 

 deeply punctured, and with the head shortly pubescent. Pro- 

 thorax refuse anteriorly, broader than long, deeply punctured on 

 the anterior part only, shining black, marginated with a mode- 

 rately deep fovea on each side, convex posteriorly, and with a 

 somewhat deep excavation in the middle of the anterior part, 

 with the upper sides of the excavation produced in a short 

 smooth acute protuberance. Elytra once and a half as long as the 

 prothorax and contiguous to its base, with the sides very little 

 ampliated, moderately depressed, finely striated, with the strise 

 punctured; shining black, with a slightly sinuated posteriorly 



