180 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



than tliat of the female, is furnished with a strong laterally com- 

 pressed liorn, and is a little refuse and nearly smooth in front. 

 Elytra having a shagTeen appearance, with seven fine transverse 

 punctured striaa on each elytron, and with the interstices flat. 

 Legs ciliated with red hair. Antennas, palpi, and tarsi, red. 



The female of this species very closely resembles the female of 

 0. grantdahis, described by me from Port Denison in 1864, which 

 species, I see by the " Catalogus Coleopterum," has had its name 

 changed by Von Harold to consentaneus, I presume because the 

 name granulatus had been previously applied by Boheman to 

 another species. I am inclined to believe that in the case of that 

 species I made the same mistake as in 0. cuniculus, and described, 

 two females only and not the male. The difference between the 

 females of 0. consentaneus and the one now described consists 

 chiefly in consentaneus having the median line of the thorax 

 visible, in having the elytra much more roughly marked, in 

 having the under side of the body more hirsute, and in having the 

 space on the head behind the frontal transverse ridge, punctate. 



343. — OnthophaCtUS eubicundijlus. n. sp. 

 Length 1| lines. 



Black, opaque, punctate, and marked on the margin of the 

 head and clypeus, the sides and base of the thorax, and over all 

 parts of the elytra with indistinctly defined deep red spots. Head 

 transverse, bisinuate slightly on the sides, emarginate at the apex, 

 and of a rather brassy hue with two long slightly curved horns on 

 the vertex, extending upwards and outwards, and obtusely pointed, 

 in the males, and in the females two small tubercles occupying 

 the place of these horns. Thorax transverse, emarginate in front, 

 rounded behind, considerably bulged out on the sides, foveate at 

 the broadest part, and shallowly variolous-punctate on the sur- 

 face, with the punctures each furnished with a decumbent yellow 

 seta. The male has in addition an obtuse protuberance near the 

 anterior part of the thorax, and a rather deep excavation on each 

 side, of a slightly metallic hue. Elytra finely striate, with the 

 interstices flat and having in the middle of each a row of punc- 

 tures bearing yellow set^e. The legs are of a piceous red. 



