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(puncturis in ambobus piliferis); tibiis anticis minus 

 eloQgatis, unguiculis parvis. Long., 4 1.; lat., 2^ 1. 



The type of this species (which was generously given to me by 

 Mr. Lea) is probably a male, judged by the narrowed and quite 

 strongly upturned front of its head. The clypeus is evenly con- 

 tinuous with the rest of the head without any trace of a clypeal 

 suture or carina or any change in the puncturation. Probably 

 this species bears a general resemblance to the practically unde- 

 scribed O. Tlioreyi, Har., but as the presence of a frontal carina 

 in both sexes is one of the few characters attributed to that 

 species I presume that it is distinct. This insect is also somewhat 

 like superficially to an Oiithophagus from N. Australia which I 

 have no doubt is 0. latro^ Har., which, however, among many 

 other distinctions has the base of its pronotum unmargined and 

 its eyes quite distinctly granulate. I have nam:id it after the 

 late Sir W. Macleay. 



X.S. Wales ; Sj^dney. 



O. Hehnsi, sp. nov. Mas (?). Sat latus ; supra glaber ; subtus 

 sparsissime fulvo-hirtus ; sat nitidus ; niger, tarsis palpis 

 antennisque ferrugineis ; clypeo transversim rugato, antice 

 leviter emarginato ; sutura clypeali fortiter carinata ; capite 

 pone clypeum sat grosse punctulato et inter oculos obtuse 

 bituberculato ; oculis minus angustis vix perspicue granu- 

 latis ; prothorace quam longiori ut 18 ad 11 latiori, supra 

 iintice vix perspicue retuso (foveis sublateralibus modicis), 

 crebre minus fortiter punctulato (parte sublaterali media 

 laevi), postice longitudinaliter vix sulcato, lateribus . ante 

 medium haud (pone medium leviter) sinuatis, angulis anticis 

 fere rectis posticis obtusis, basi subtilissime (nisi in medio 

 vix perspicue) elevato-marginata, elytris punctulato-striatis, 

 puncturis quam striae sat latioribus, interstitiis convexis 

 crebrius minus subtiliter punctulatis; pygidio crebre sat 

 grosse punctulato; metasterno (media parte laevi excepta) 

 sat grosse punctulato ; tibiis anticis modicis ; unguiculis 

 minus brevibus. Long. 2| 1.; lat., 1| 1. 



I am doubtful of the sex of the unique example of this species 

 (presented to me by Mr. Lea). The two frontal tubercles and 

 the tendency (very slight) to a retuse form on the front of the 

 pronotum are in favour of its being a male, but the front tibiae 

 do not show any elongation likely to be sexual. It is superficially 

 not unlike 0. nitidior, Blackb., but inter alia has much wider 

 eyes, which are scarcely perceptibly granulate. It also resembles 

 O. Koehelei^ Blackb. (which has similar eyes) but differs by inter 

 alia its convex conspicuously punctulate elytral interstices and 



