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sterna with a sliort biit little notable pubesccnce. Femora distinctly 

 puiictured beiieatb. Anterior tibiae rather long- , a good deal curved 

 inwards towards the extreraity , with thrce short , stout , obtiise or 

 rather truncate teeth , and with a very small fourth upper tooth , the 

 apical spur remarlcably stout and directed abruptly inwards. 



The only specimcn I have seen I obtained with the Lafertean 

 collectiou in which it was labelled „nov. gen. Oniticcnoidcs Kelche, 

 ludia or." Though I have no doubt it will ultiniately bo considered 

 a distinct genus, and a very important one for study in connection 

 with the genera Onthophagus and Oniticellm , I have thought it advi- 

 sable to place it for the present as a member of the former genus, 

 rather than estabhsh a new genus for it. 



Onthophagus orienfalis Harold: Niger, denshis setosus, a/deniiis 

 rufis; prothorace crehre fortiter punctato, hast imlistincts laäcato; ehjtris 

 striatis, interstitiis convexis. fortiter irregula/riter punctatis. — Long. 

 9—91/2 milh 



Mas: CJypeo disco tmilineato, vertice carina elevata recta, tdrinque 

 m cormi erectum , hreve , retusum terminata; prothorace antice rctnso, 

 parte declivi pone cornua leviter hiimpressa. 



Fem.: Clypeo hicarinato, carina postica elevata; prothorace antice 

 retuso, mpra partem decUvem sinuatim prominente. 



0. Orientalis Harold. Cd. Heft. IV. p. 83 (1868). 



0. stchsnicatus Dej. Cat. 3, ed. p. 157. 



Clypeus evenly margined, quite ronnded in front, witli a straight 

 line on the disc, and with a strougly elevated carina on the vertex, 

 at each end of which in the male is a short , stout , ercct , straight 

 hörn ; in front it is rugosely punctate, betweon the two carinae there 

 are only a few punctures. Thorax ciosely and strongly punctured, 

 and clothed with a short erect pubescence the front part is retuse 

 and in the male is a httle depressed on each side of the middle in 

 adaption to the vertical horns, the middle part very slightly lobed; 

 in the female there is in front of the middle a sinuate line, which is 

 almost angularly prominent on each side at its commencement , and 

 is emarginate in the middle , in front of this the surface falls ab- 

 ruptly. The elytra are deeply striated, the first interstice is broad 

 as is also the external one, the others are narrow, espocially towards 

 their extremity where they are elevated and in some parta shining 



