178 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



338. — Merodontus calcaratus. n. sp. 

 Length 4 lines. 

 Piceous brown, opaque, densely punctate, and clothed with 

 short semi-erect pale coloured hairs. Head with a slight convexity 

 in the middle, and a short slightly oblique transverse ridge on 

 each side in front of the eyes. Thorax with two abbreviated 

 ridges near the median line composed each of two elongated 

 tubercles, extending from the apical margin to the middle, with 

 six small conical tubercles placed at intervals across the thorax 

 in a semicircular form, with another tubercle near the posterior 

 angles, and with the anterior angles large, flat, and obliquely 

 truncate, the hairs on the anterior angles, and on the tubercles 

 being longer than on the rest of the surface, and more curled 

 at their extremities. Elytra punctato- striate, — the strias con- 

 sisting each of two fine lines with flat interstices, the alternate 

 interstices red, the others having two or more small tubercles, — 

 strongly costate at the lateral margin of the flat dorsal surface, — 

 the costa not reaching the suture, and terminating in a reddish 

 tubercle, — and furnished with a fine costa near the lateral margin 

 of the epipleura. Pygidium convex and taberculate, the tubercles 

 small and taking a V shaped position. Under surface piceous 

 black, opaque, punctate and somewhat scaly. Legs strongly 

 punctate and ciliated with short reddish hair. 



I have seen specimens of this insect from Moreton Bay, and I 

 believe it is pretty generally distributed over the whole of the 

 Northern parts of New Holland. It is found, as is also the case 

 with the last described species Temnoplectron tibiale, in human 

 excrement. 



339.— Onthophagus granulatds, Bohem, Bes. Eu- 

 genie 1858, page 48. 



340. — Onthophagus quadripustulatus, Fab. Spec. 

 Ins. 1., page 31. — Oliv. Ent. I. '^., pagellb, 

 t. 15. /. 141. — Montrouz. Ann. Soc. Agr. 

 hyon. VII., 1857, I., page 22.— Harold. Gol. 

 Heft. II., page ^'^. 



