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emarginate, but is not bicientate ; the forehead lias a slight 

 swelling in the middle but no horn ; the anterior tibiae have 

 the anterior margin of the apical tooth nearly at right angles 

 to the axis of the tibia, and in the female the tibia is truncate 

 at right angles ; thorax evenly convex. 



Litocopris punctiventris, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovalis, modice convexus, piceus, nitidus ; capita sat crebre 

 cvidentcr punctato, clypeo margine fere laevi ; thorace aequali, sat 

 crcbro punctato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, basi impresso-mar- 

 ginato, liuea punctata mediana abbreviata ; elytris fort iter etria- 

 tis, striis creberrime fortiter crenato-punctatis, interstitiis leviter 

 convexissat crebre sat fortiter pun ctatis, interstitiis f—A"' rlimidio 

 basali la^vibus ; corpore subtus femoribusque omnino crebre sat 

 fortiter punctato, metasteruo linea mediana lajvi. 



Long. 5 lin. 



Hah. Senegambia, Lusitanica. 



The head has the punctuation moderately finely but very 

 distinctly punctured, the vertex is flattened, and here the 

 punctures are very close together, but not crowded ; the 

 forehead has a trace of a tubercle in the middle. The thorax 

 has a punctured impressed median line extending to the 

 middle, and the surface on each side of this is smooth, in 

 front of it the punctures are rather fine and not very close 

 together and the middle of the front margin is nearly smooth ; 

 on each side of the disk the punctures are moderately strong 

 and separated from each other by about the diameter of a 

 puncture, or in places by two diameters ; at the sides the 

 punctures are coarser and crowded, and there is no smooth 

 spot outside the usual lateral fovea. The elytra have the 

 punctuation very distinct, the punctures separated by about 

 one and a half or two puncture-diameters ; at the sides the 

 punctuation is rather closer, the second, third, fourth, and 

 fifth interstices have a few iine punctures at the base, the 

 sixth is smooth at the extreme base, the fifth lias a smooth 

 spot near the base. The whole of the underside is densely 

 and rather strongly punctured, as well as the pygidium and 

 femora ; the punctures at the sides of the metasternum are 

 coarse. 



Copris muti'ca, Bohem. — According to a typical specimen 

 sent to me from Stockholm by Prof. Aurivillius this is con- 

 generic w ith the above, but is rather more broadly ovate ; 

 the elytra are not quite so deeply striated, the interstices less 

 convex, and fiie punctuation quite ditl'erent. The meta- 



