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tus, carina medio dente lato, acuto, depreaso, subhorizontali 

 armata, dorso postice elevato-reficulato. 



$ mmol': A majore differt capHe mayis angulato, clypei 

 dentibus lateralibus nullis; carina thoracica mcdio panllo pro- 

 ducta; aufftilis preocularibus nullis. — Long. 27 — 3ü lin., Lat. 

 prothor 15 liu. 



? (ignota). 



Assanu Allied to H. Dilloni Guer., from which it differs in 

 the four horns of the head being in a transverse line, two on the 

 Vertex an two on tbe lateral niargins. 



6. Synapsis Nov. Gen. 



Corpus late oblongum vix connexum, Caput late triangu- 

 liiTf, genis prolongatis acutis, in thoracis emarginatione receptis. 

 Thorax brevis , inermis, elytris angustior, lateribus bicarinatis, 

 curinis mox ponc angulos anticos conjunctis. Elytrn octo-striata, 

 mter strias 7 et 8 carinata; epipleuris latis bistriatis. Tibiae 

 anticae valde trideritatae, intermediis posticisque sensim a basi 

 usque ad apicem dilatatis, carinis exterioribus multidenlatis, 

 apice ut in Heliocopride obliquis, tridentatis. 



A geuus formed for the reception oft the very peculiar Copris 

 brahminus of Hope (Gray. Zool. Miscell. p. 22). I have two 

 exaniples before me which I believe to be ^ and $. In both, 

 the posterior tibiae have the two longitudinal cariuae wide apart, 

 as in Heliocopris, the lower one only being dentate, but in the J 

 the Upper carina has a long dense friuge of hairs, whilst in the ? 

 it is naked. 



Synapsis brahmina Hope. I. c. 



Subdepressa, piceo-nigra. Clypeus antice obtuse bidentatus, 

 dentibus incisione profunda separatis, rugis brevibus transversis 

 sculptus; vertice unitnberculato cum genis granulato. Thorax 

 confertim granulatus, medio sublaevis. Elytra subtilissime slri- 

 gosa, striis subtiliter crenato-punctatis. Nigra, minus nitida. — 

 Long. 13 — 14 lin., lat. 7 — 7| lin. N. India, Assam. 



7. Phanaeus bispinus nov. spec. 



Oblongus, aeneo-obscurus, opacus, clypeo antice vix biden- 

 tato transverse strigoso; thorace laevissimo, opaco, lateribus vi- 



