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scenti-pubescens. Corpus subtus convexum, pectore medio 

 aureo-fulgente, parce punctulato, tenuiter pubescente, lon- 

 (j-itudinaliter carinato, carina basi canaliculata, lateribu8 

 crebre punctatis, viridi-orichalceis, densius flavo-villosis, 

 abdomine orichalceo, viridi-tincto, apice punctato, flavo- 

 piloso Pedes validiusculi, femoribus compressis, 4 po- 

 sterioribus flavo-orichalceis, linea media longitudinali in 

 pagina interiore fusca, anticis orichalceis, antice cum 

 coxis genibusque nigris, omnibus dense flavo-ciliatis, ti- 

 biis fuscis, 4 posterioribus plus minusve aaneo-tinctis, in- 

 ferne apice flavescentibus, anticis externe 4-dentatis, basi 

 subserratis, omnibus flavescenti-pilosis. -p^s 



954. Onthophagus j^yoCTwc^ws: subtus nigro-coerulescens, 

 supra viridis aut coeruleus, granulatus, parce pubescens; 

 clypeo apice verticeque in dentes elevatis, fronte cannula 

 transversa notata; thorace antice retuso, basi fere trun- 

 cato; elytris attenuatis, tenuissime, remote striatis, limbo 

 flavescente. — Long. 9 — '11, lat. 6 — 7 millim. 

 Onthophagus flavocinctus Klug Berl. Mouatsb. 1855, p. 653. 93. 

 Habitat prope fluvium Gariep. 



Caput depressum, supra subglabrum, fronte verti- 

 ceque distincte granulatis, viridibus aut coeruleis, clypeo 

 apice simpliciter punctato, nigro, margine reflexo, supra 

 OS in dentem elevato; lamina verticis in spinam brevem, 

 canaliculatam, assurgit, carinulaque transversa, subrecta, 

 in niedio frontis elevata. Antenna piceje, clava nigro- 

 fusca. Thorax longitudine fere duplo latior, suba^qua- 

 liter rotundato-ampliatus, apice profundissime emargi- 

 natus, basi vix lobatus, ibi lateribnsque tenuiter margi- 

 natus, supra transversim convexus, antice late retusus, 

 intra marginem laterum utrinque foveola, externe callo 

 terminata, impressus, versus basin medio punctatus, ce- 

 terum creberrime granulatus, viridis aut coeruleus, niti- 

 dus, tenuissime parce pubescens. Elytra basi thorace 

 angustiora illique arete applicata, pone humeros parum 



