Scaraba3ida3 in the British Museum. 55 



sternum has the space between tlie coxa^ very distinctly 

 punctured in front and on the sides close to the coxa3. 



Copris simplex, Harold (Col. Heft. iv. p. 81). — If I have 

 rightly identified this species it is closely allied to O. mutica 

 and is n Li(ocopn\s with extrtniely finely punctured interstices 

 to the elytra, but with deep stria;, as in L. j^utictiventris, and 

 with the metaslernum entirely smooth between the coxte. 



Dendropemon telephus, sp. n. 



Oblongus, niger, nitidus, depressus ; capite rugoso, anticc bidcntato, 

 vertice carina obtusa recta postice obsolete piinctulata, prope 

 augulos posticos carina sat elevata; tborace raodice convexo, basi 

 lasvi, medio subtilissime parce punctulato, antice distinctius punc- 

 tulato, prope luargincm anticum linea elevata, medio tuberculo 

 parvo obtuso instructo ; elytris fere quadratis, fortiter striatis, 

 striis sat obscure i)uuctatis, interstitiis leviter convexis, parce 

 subtilissime pmictulatis ; pj'gidio obsolete punctulato ; tarsorum 

 posticorum articulo basali elongate fere parallelo, articulo sccundo 

 quintuple breviori. 



Long. 6^ lin. 



Hah. Cayenne. 



This is one of the comparatively narrow species, somewhat 

 resembling D. viridis in form, but rather more convex. The 

 head is coarsely rugose in front, with the two rather obtuse 

 teeth separated by an equilateral-triangular space ; the space 

 behind the frontal ridge is finely and vaguely punctured ; the 

 side-piece is divided into two nearly equal portions by a very 

 distinct ridge, which does not quite extend to the eye ; the 

 front portion is finely punctured near the margin, the poste- 

 rior portion is im punctate. The thorax has the median line 

 and the two basal punctures well marked ; the middle of the 

 disk and the base are impunctate, the sides of the disk are 

 very delicately and moderately closely punctured, the punc- 

 tures becoming much more distinct in front ; close to the 

 front margin there is a small somewdiat round protuberance, 

 with a fine, nearly straight, raised line on each side of it. 

 The elytra have the stri» deep, but sharply cut, nearly as in 

 D. viridis ] so that the interstices are only moderately convex. 

 The posterior tarsi have the basal joint a little more than 

 twice as long as broad, subparallel, a little narrowed at the 

 base ; the second joint very small, about one fifth the length 

 of the preceding. 



