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turn. Thorax cupreis mavginibus externis elevatis, lineaque flava 

 utrinqiie externa, disco fortissime punctato. Scutellum magnum postice 

 decitura. Elytra nigro-virescentia maculis quatuor flavis notata, binag 

 fere rotundat£e ad basin posita% binoe aliae reniformes ante apicem locatas. 

 Corpus infra nigro- aeneum segmentis abdominis utrinque aurantiis capillis 

 obsitis pedibusque concoloribus. 

 In jMus. Dom. Royle ; in montibus Himalajce captus ceria. 



Geotbdpes Orientalis. 

 Long. lin. 10. lat. lin. 6|. 



Violaceus thorace sparsim punctulato, elytris striatopunctatis, pedibus 

 supra iiigris, infra violaceis nitidis. Antennae piceee capitulo fuscanti, 

 thorax violaceus longitudinali serie punctorum in medio posita, variis aliis 

 sparsim dispositis. Elytra striate punctata striis quasi vermibus erosis. 

 Corpus infra violaceum nitidum, femoribus posticis uni- spinosis, tibiis 

 pilosis, tarsis chelisque piceis. 



This singular species approaches very closely to some of our British 

 species, and is probably from a high elevation of the Himalayan mountains. 



In Mus. Dom. Royle. 



OxTHOrHAGlS PhANCEOIDES. 



Long lin. Ah. lat. lin. 2{. 



Niger obscuruy, clypeo cornu reflexo abmpte truncate, thorace pha* 

 nseoformi, postice lateribus in spinam obtusam productis, femoribus 

 luteis. Antennae piceae capitulo fuscanti : clypeus hexngonus cornu 

 reverse abrupte truncate, thorax fere quadratus ; punctatissinius, punc- 



tulis erosis tubercule antice, fossulaque postice in medio marginis im- 

 pressa, angulis posticis in spinas productis. Scutellum parvum nitidum. 

 Elytra striata. Corpus suptus atrum nitidum punctatum. Pedes femori- 

 bus luteis, tibiis tarsisque nigvopieeis. 



This singular Insect will, at some future period, form the type of a 

 new genus : in form it unites the South American Phanaeus, and the 



widely- disseminated genus Onthuphagus. 



LUCAXLS LUKIFER. 



Long. lin. 37. lat. lin. 10. 



iEneu-piceus, areolo tomento aspersus., mandibulis exsertis unidentatis, 

 denticulisque minoribus instructis, apice bifurcatis. Clypee deflexo 

 lunifero, femoribus castaneis. 



Hab. in Montibus Himalaya) ; in ]Mus. Dom. Royle. 



This Insect appears to unite in itself ihe characters of the Asiatic and 



