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“74 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse on the 
striatis, interstitiis leviter convexis, subtilissime scarificato- 
rugulosis, subsericeo-nitidis.” 
Long. 9 lin. ; lat. 44 lin. 
2. Forehead with a short transverse carina; thorax 
with a ridge towards the front of the disk. 
Hab.—Simabara and Hiogo, and other sandy districts 
in Kiushiu and Nipon. Very abundant. 
Copris tripartita, sp. nov. 
C. lunari affinis at minor, elytrorum interstitiis im- 
punctatis. Niger, nitidus. Elytris punctato-striatis, in- 
terstitiis convexiusculis, impunctatis. 
$,max. Capite cornu longo erecto, fortiter punctato. 
Thorace utrinque cornu erecto longo apice acuto; dorso 
elevato, elevatione in medio a sulco fortiter punctato 
divisi, antice quadrinodosé; angulis anticis rectis extus 
emar ginatis. 
‘Long. 4 lin. ; lat. 43 lin. 
oe Capite cornu brevi obtuso. Thorace fortiter crebre 
punctato, dorso fere levi a sulco fortiter punctato longi- 
tudinaliter diviso, antice carina transversé brevi; angulis 
anticis rotundato-obtusis. 
Long. 8 lin. ; lat. 43 lin. 
$, minor. Capite cornu brevi, acuto. Thoracis cor- 
nubus lateralibus nullis. 
Long. 7 lin. 
Closely allied to C. lunaris. The head is similar, but 
is only slightly emarginate in front. The thorax is of the 
same form but has the sides emarginate on the outside at 
the anterior angles, thus making them rectangular; the 
armature is the same, but the central raised part is more 
elevated and distinctly quadrituberculate on the front 
margin; the surface is strongly punctured everywhere 
except the upper part of the raised portion. The elytra 
are more distinctly punctate-striate, the interstices slightly 
more convex and without any punctuation. 
In the female the thorax is thickly and strongly punc- 
tured, except a smooth spot on each side of the disk. 
This species must not be confounded with an Indian 
one (for which I have no published name that I can 
depend upon), “ C. pompilius, MSS.,” which differs from 
C. tripartita in having in the larger development two 
small tubercles in front at the base of the raised portion ; 
and the interstices of the elytra are distinctly although 
