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COLEOPTERA, 449 
brown hairs. Intermediate coxz with a few scattered punctures. 
Metasternum smooth and glabrous on the disc, but punctured 
with setose punctures round the sides and at the base. Sides of 
abdomen very thickly covered with a mass of reddish-brown hairs ; 
abdominal segments impunctate on disc, but punctured more or 
less thickly at sides. 
Length, 59 mm. ; breadth, 35 mm. 
Lake Stephanie to Lake Abaya. 16th May, 1895. This huge 
insect is very remarkable for the peculiar development of the 
thoracic horns. 
2. Heliocopris coriaceus, Shipp, sp. nov. 
9. Near hamadryas F. Color dull, pitchy black ; head trans- 
versely covered with a network of fine carina’ running into each 
other. Clypeus smooth, sinuate, and rounded, front margin very 
slightly reflexed. The disc is raised into a trituberculated, trans- 
verse ridge, with two small carine extending from each of the two 
outside tubercles towards the side of the head. The small carina 
are not so strongly marked as in Aamadryas, Fb. Thorax, with the 
discal elevation strongly sinuate, the centre curve being rounded 
and ending with two small tuberculate points ; the truncated por- 
tion being strong, granulated, and covered with reddish-brown 
hairs. 
The disc of the thorax is strongly punctured with rather large 
punctures running into each other towards the centre, but becom- 
ing more oval and elongated at the sides. The central lobes are 
impunctate. 
Elytra finely, but thickly, punctured all over with oval punctures, 
very finely punctured between the lateral carine ; interstices are 
almost obsolete on disc, but become plainer towards the lateral 
margins. Sutural interstice almost impunctate and glabrous. 
Pygidium obtusely pointed at apex, emarginate, and punc- 
tured sparingly with rather small, shallow punctures. 
Metasternum punctured all over and with a number of long, 
reddish hairs on the anterior portion, and with a depression on the 
posterior portion. 
Sides of abdomen covered with reddish hairs, abdominal seg- 
ments impunctate on disc. 
Leéeneth, 42 mm.; breadth, 26 mm. 
Amarato to Lake Stephanie, 23. iv. 96. 
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