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1. O. incensus. Clypeus with two elevated, transverse 

 lines ; thorax with an anterior double prominence. 



•Inhabits Mexico* 



Body black, polished, punctured : head with two trans- 

 verse, elevated lines ; posterior line between the eyes, 

 and slightly emarginate in its middle ; anterior line a lit- 

 tle more elevated in the middle, equidistant from the tip 

 of the clypeus and posterior line; tip slightly contracted; 

 antennce ferrujs:inous ; thorax on the middle of the ante- 

 rior submargin with a transverse, sub-bilobate, or slightly 

 and widely emarginate elevation ; an indented dot each 

 side : elytra with punctured strise; interstitial spaces plane, 

 minutely punctured : head and thorax with a hardly per- 

 ceptible tinge of green. 



Length over three tenths of an inch. 



The specimen is probably a female. It is smaller than 

 the O. tauniSy Linn., the female of which it resembles in 



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the form and disposition of the lines of the clypeus. It is 

 much larger than O. latebrosusy Fabr., from the female of 

 which it differs considerably in the form of the elevated 

 lines of the head, but agrees in having a thoracic promi- 

 nence ; this prominence, however, is more obvious, and 



widely emarginate. 



2. O. viridicatus. Green ; clypeus bidentate ; elytra 

 smooth . 



Inhabits United States. 



Scarabaeus smaragdulus, Fab. Melsh. Catal. 



Body robust, green : head bidentate at tip : antennce 

 blackish : thorax on the lateral edse a little an<!;ulated 

 before the middle : elytra smooth, impunctured, or with 



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