BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S. 
903 
the interstices minutely punctate and slightly convex, with the 
suture and a broad middle band black, the rest red. The legs 
are piceous. 
Long. 1^, lat. f line. 
125. Onthophagus rubescens, n.sp. 
Entirely of a dark reddish colour, excepting the head, the 
middle of the thorax, and the scutellar region, which are blackish, 
moderately nitid. Head broadly rounded and somewhat reflexed 
in front, the transverse ridges scarcely raised. Thorax finely and 
not densely punctate, the elytra shallowly striate-punctate, the 
interstices minutely punctate. The sexes scarcely diflier. 
I.ong. 1:1^, lat I line. 
126. Onthophagus humeralis, n.sp. 
Black, very nitid. Head smooth, the lateral angles rounded 
and laterally prominent, the clypeus slightly rugose, broadly and 
shallowly emarginate in front, the anterior transverse ridge 
scarcely traceable in the male, the posterior with two short strong 
triangular horns, divided by a rectangular emargination. Thorax 
finely and thinly punctate without any retuse portion. Elytra 
very finely striate-punctate, the interstices flat and smooth, with 
the humeral angles and extreme apex of a deep piceous red. 
Thighs piceous. 
Long. 1|, lat. 1 line. 
127. Onthophagus acuticeps, n.sp. 
Black, very nitid. Head smooth in the male, the clypeus very 
minutely punctate on the reflected border, and sub-acutely pointed 
upwards at the apex ; in the female the head is punctate, and the 
clypeus transversely striolate and rounded in front ; a short 
obtuse horn on each side between the eyes. Thorax very finely 
punctate, a little retuse in front, surmounted by four small 
tuberosities, the two middle ones separated by a slight emargina- 
tion only from one another, and by a deeper emargination from 
the others; these tuljerosities are not noticeable in the female. 
