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punctate, with a median elevated line and a small tubercle on 
each side near the outer edge; the pygidium also is wholly 
punctate, with a transverse ridge before the’ base; thé pro- 
sternum closely punctate, punctures large and deep; the 
mesosternum bisinuous anteriorly, with a tine marginal stria ; 
the meso- and metasterna are sculptured like the last species, 
but the punctures or fovez are smaller, and the median spaces 
of the metasternum are clearly and evenly punctulate ; the first 
segment of the abdomen has a line of eleven punctures on the 
anterior edge, and several additional fovew at the side. ‘The 
smoother parts of the under surface are somewhat neous, 
and the head and thorax have a bluish metallic tinge. 
The general facies of this Onthophilus agrees with that of 
O. alternatus, Lec. 
Hab. Burmah, Manipore, alt. 7000 feet (Doherty). 
Epiechinus taprobane, sp. u. 
Orbicularis, niger, opacus ; metasterno antice utrinque profunde 
foveolato. Onthophilo arboreo simillimus at major. 
L. 2 mill. 
Orbicular, opaque, setose; the head very rugose, with a 
median carina betore the neck and one on each side; on the 
edge of the clypeus are five shallow pits; the thorax with 
some large punctures on the disk, with traces of carne 
behind the head, and two lateral sulci usually filled with 
squamous matter ; the elytra are costate, with rows of large 
punctures in the interstices, the punctures gradually becoming 
smaller towards the apices, where they cease to be; the 
prosternum is bicarinate, carine gradually approaching 
anteriorly, surface between them smooth, anterior lobe 
with large punctures; the mesosternum has two large poly- 
gonal depressions, one on each side, and a small median 
sutural fovea; the metasternum has two large and very deep 
fovez, one in each anterior angle, the anterior edge of each 
fovea joins the mesosternal depression. ‘I'hese foveze are not 
seen until the sterna are freed of scales. ‘The pygidium is 
very setose, but when abraded a few large punctures are seen 
on the surface. 
This species is different to Onthophilus hispidus, Mars., but 
whether Marseul’s description applies (as he thought it did) 
to O. hispidus, Payk., is more than doubttul. I rely on the 
sculpture of the sterna for specific characters. 
Hab. Ceylon. I found this species at Ballangoda in 1882. 
