BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S, 
901 
rugosely punctate, a small smooth retase space near the anterior 
margin, with two short tubercles above, divided by an emargina- 
tion on the median line and a smaller obtuse tubercle on each. 
Elytra finely striate, the interstices each with a row of small 
round tubercles, some of them forming occasionally an almost 
continuous row. Pygidium rugose and punctate. Anterior tibiae 
not very strongly quadridentate, the posterior rather slight. One 
specimen. 
Long. 3^, lat. If lines. 
120. Onthophagus bicornis, n.sp. 
Piceous, nitid, the thorax with a reddish-purple tinge. Head 
hemispherically i-ounded and recurved in front, in the male slightly 
pointed, smooth, a curved transverse ridge on the clypeal suture, 
a short acute horn on each side a little behind and inside the 
eye. Thorax transverse, much bulged out on the sides, extremely 
minutely punctate ; the anterior angles slightly prominent, the 
apical face shortly retuse with a rather broad protuberance in the 
middle over the retuse portion, emarginate in the middle and 
rounded at the angles, and a small sub-acute tubercle on each side 
of it. Elytra scarcely as wide as the widest part of the thorax, 
punctate-striate, the striae distinct, but not profound except near 
the sides. The female is without prominent horns or tubercles, 
and has the head more punctate. 
Long. 3, lat. If lines. 
This species most resembles 0. purpureicollis, Mad. 
121. Onthophagus propinquus, n.sp. 
Very near the last described species, but entirely black, the apex 
of the clypeus moi’e acuminate, the horns on the back of the head 
smaller and more obtuse, the thorax more distinctly j)unctate, the 
retuse part much smaller, and the prominences above it small, the 
elytra strongly punctate-striate, and the interstices slightly convex 
and very minutely punctate. 
Long. 2|, lat. 1|^ lines. 
