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North Indian Oniticellus tmbellis, Bates, and was named by 

 Reiche 0. fiiscopunctatus, F. ; but by the kindness of 

 Dr. Adam Buviiig, of Copenhagen, wlio has made for me an 

 excellent drawing of the Fabrician type specimen, I am ablo 

 to state that that is a species of Onthophngus, very much 

 smaller and entirely unlike the insect here described. Reiche 

 is responsible also for the manuscript name " modestus, Dej.," 

 which I have adopted. 



Oniticellus modestus is closely related to the African 

 0. spinipes, Roth, for which Mr. Peringuey has formed a new 

 genus Tiniocellus, which he has widely separated from 

 Oniticellus by reason of his counting only eight joints in the 

 antenna. This is an error, for there are nine joints, and these 

 species cannot be separated from 0. cinctus, F., planatus, 

 Lap., /onnosuAT, Chev., &c. 



I may take this opportunity of noting that Mr. Pdringuey 

 has incorrectly given the last-named species as a synonym 

 of the S.-African 0. pictus, llausm. O.formosus, (Jhev., is 

 a West-African insect, larger than O. pictus and differing 

 in the form of the clypeus and other respects. 



XXIX. — Oti the Oeneric Names of the Riipicaprine Ruminants 

 known as Serows and Gorals. By R. I. POCOCK, Superin- 

 tendent of the Zoological Society's Gardens. 



The rupicaprine ruminants commonly known as Serows and 

 Gorals were first dismembered from the genus Antilope by 

 Hamilton Smith in 1827 (Grithth's An. Kingdom, v. p. 352). 

 This author grouped under the subgenus JVo'morhedus * the 

 three species sumatrensis, Shaw, duvaucelii, H. Sra., and 

 goral, Hardw. One of these must be the type of Ncemorhedus. 



In 1834 Hodgson (P. Z. S. 1834, p. 85) adopted JScemo- 

 rhedus for the same species, with the addition of the Nepalese 

 form described by himself as thar. Although clearly recog- 

 nizing that the four species ought to be athliated in pairs, 

 A', gural and N. duvaucelii forming a group apart from 

 iV. sumatre7isis and N. thar, Hodgson himself did not divide 

 N(Bmorhedus into two genera or subgenera, nor select one of 

 the species as its type. 



The next writer to deal systematically with the question, 

 namely Ogilby (P. Z. S. 1836, p. 138), pointed out that 



♦ I preserve the orif^inal spelling of the name throughout this paper, 

 and ignore the emendations that have been proposed. 



