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canaliculato, abdomine brevissiino, Ifeviusculo, segmentis 

 ultimis in ipso margine laterum obsoletius testaceo-ma- 

 culatis. Pedes nigro-picei, submetallico-nitentes, femori- 

 bus remote punctatis, ciliatis, tibiis setulosis, anticis ser- 

 ratis, 4-dentati8, coxis barbatis. p „ 



963. Onthophagus irinodosus (Bhn): cupreus, injequa- 

 liter pubescens; capite thoraceque granulatis, hoc an- 

 tice bituberculato, dorso longitudinaliter, ad latera ba- 

 seos oblique impresso, vertice cornuto, fronte trans- 

 versim arcuatim carinata; elytris testaceis, nigro-macu- 

 latis; antennis ferrugineis. — Long. 8^, lat. 5^ millim. 

 Habitat juxta fluvium Limpopo. 



Caput longitudine paullo latius, subdepressum, ru- 

 goso-granulatum, cupreura, fronte verticeque densius gri- 

 seo-pilosis, ilia carinula transversa, arcnata, elevata, Irevi, 

 subintegra, hoc corniculo erect o, nigro-violaceo, vix di- 

 midii capitis longitudine, clypeo apice rotundato, margine 

 reflexo, violaceo-tincto. Antennae ferruginecs, clava pa- 

 ullo dilutiore. Thorax longitudine paullo latior, medio 

 rotundato-ampliatus, apice profunde emarginatus, basi ob- 

 tuse subrotundatus, margine laterum ante basin subsi- 

 nuato, supra convexus, crebre granulatus, cupreus, flavo- 

 griseo-pilosus, medio longitudinaliter late at vadosim ca- 

 naliculatus, ad latera utrinque foveola insculptus, intra 

 angulos baseos oblique impressus, antice anguste retusus, 

 tuberculis duobus distinctis, apice nigro-violaceis, elevatis, 

 impressionibus baseos et laterum tuberculisque hcvibus. 

 Elytra thorace paullo longiora at vix latiora, illi arete 

 applicata, pone humeros leviter ampliata, apice conjun- 

 ctim obtuse subrotundata, supra parum convexa, obsole- 

 tissime striata, in interstitiis granulis minutissimis ad- 

 spersa, testacea, subglabra, singulo maculis septem nigris, 

 tribus scilicet ante medium laterum, majoribus, dift'ormi- 

 bus, triangulariter positis, duabus pone medium dorsi in 

 interstitiis secundo quartoque punctiformibus, una prope 



