. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. RHAMPHAUOBETUS. 291 Keij to the Species. Dark, closely pubescent, not shining sorex, Oh. Light, shining, very sparsely setose suillus, sp. n. 311. Rhamphadoretus sorex. Rhaniphadoretus sorex, Oliaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1912, p. 4:24. " Blackish brown, with the femora yellow. " Kather narrow and convex. Clypeus semicircular, finely margined, closely and finely granulated, opaque ; clypeal snture scarcely visible, straight. Forehead granulated and opaque in front, more sparsely punctured behind, like the vertex, and clothed with greyish yell
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. RHAMPHAUOBETUS. 291 Keij to the Species. Dark, closely pubescent, not shining sorex, Oh. Light, shining, very sparsely setose suillus, sp. n. 311. Rhamphadoretus sorex. Rhaniphadoretus sorex, Oliaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1912, p. 4:24. " Blackish brown, with the femora yellow. " Kather narrow and convex. Clypeus semicircular, finely margined, closely and finely granulated, opaque ; clypeal snture scarcely visible, straight. Forehead granulated and opaque in front, more sparsely punctured behind, like the vertex, and clothed with greyish yellow hair. Pronotum closely and finely punctured, with a greyish yellow hair in each puncture. Scutellum and elytra closely and rugosely punctured and setose, with the hairs rather longer near the extremities and with only slight vestiges of smooth costsB traceable here and there. Pygidium rather convex, moderatel}^ evenly punctured and shortly hairy. Claws rather short, those of the front and middle feet not very unequal, the inner hind claw very small and slender. " The female is unknown. " Lenr/th, 7 mm.; breadth, 3 mm. " ; Tyije in the Berlin Museum ; co-type in Dr. Ohaus' collection. 1 have not seen this species. 312. Rhamphadoretus suillus, sp. nov. Testaceous yellow, with the forehead, the pronotum (except the sides), scutellum, sutural edges of the elytra, and the tarsi brown or I'eddish. It is ovate, not very elongate, convex, smooth and shining, the upper surface coarsely and not closely punc- tured, with extremely minute, very sparse, inconspicuous pale setse. The head is finely and not closely transversely strigose, the clypeus semicircular, with its margin strongly I reflexed. The pronotum is convex, coarsely and irregularly punctured, with the sides evenly rounded, the front angles almost right angles and the hind angles very obtuse. The elytra are also rather coarsely and not closely punctured and bear three slightly _ „, , elevated cos
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