xlvi ON THE ENTOMOLOGY OF THE 
LUCANID. 
I formerly described six species from Nepal ; two more from the Himalayas are undescribed in Dr. 
~ Royle’s Collection. In no country is there a greater admixture of temperate and tropical forms than in 
India; some of the Lucanide resemble our British species very closely, while others are the same as 
those in Java and Singapore. Forty species have been submitted to my inspection. Passalidz are not 
equally abundant in the Old as in the New World. 
LAMELLICORNES. 
The celebrated Ateuchus JEgyptiorum, or Sacred Beetle, has almost an exact representative in India. 
Gymnopleurus capicola Hope, and azureus, Jab. both of them African species, are replaced in the 
East by G. sinuatus, Jab. and splendens Hope. Sisyphus is met with in both hemispheres. Epirinus 
is an African, as well as an oriental form. Several Indian Copride resemble those of Egypt. Copris 
Midas of India and Nepal, exactly corresponds with C. Isidis of Africa. C.Sabzus and Pithecius 
appear common to both continents, and are equally abundant in Ceylon ; and several smaller species of 
Copris, from the eastern part of Africa, if not the same, approach so closely to those of Western Asia, 
as to induce a belief that they are the same Insects, only modified by climate. Onitis and Oniticellus 
have also several representatives in both regions, if not in some instances the self-same species. Ontho- 
phagus abounds more in India than any other country; some of them unrivalled in size, splendour, and 
variety of form. More than 120 oriental species may be seen in European cabinets ; five only now are 
described from Nepal; double that number, however, are in too mutilated a state to be characterized. 
Pactolus of Nepal and India, is represented in Senegal by Harpax, Jab. Aphodius, compared with 
Onthophagus, as an Indian group, is quite insignificant ; scarcely twenty species are recorded, including 
those of Manilla and the Eastern Isles: a nondescript from Nepal will appear in the Appendix. As 
there is only a single specimen of Trox in General Hardwicke’s collection, I pass on to 
GEOTRUPIDA. 
Geotrupes has been denied by Latreille to exist in India; the Baron de Jean also makes no mention 
of any Eastern species from that country in his last catalogue. ‘T'wo species are in my recollection ; one 
from Delhi, and a second from Japan; a third also, unique, is among Dr, Royle’s Insects from the 
Himalayas. It i is probable that this genus, when found in India, appears on mountains at a considerable 
elevation : the species also may be the common food of the Shrikes of that country, as they are in 
Europe, should those birds be found there. Orphnus, Athyreus, and Hybosorus, occur in India. 
Bolboceas appears in some measure to supply the place of Geotrupes, which last is not so important a 
group in the East, as in a northern region. 
SCARABAUS. 
Under this term, the gigantic and most remarkable Insects of the Old World are ranged. Four 
species, allied to S. Atlas, Jab. are indigenous to Nepal, a convincing proof that equatorial forms 
extend beyond the tropics, and that they are found in much colder temperature than is generally 
believed. There are several genera of Scarabzide, besides Oryetes, found on the ees as oa 
uncharacterized ; some of them sagen: African cay 
MELOLON TH ID. ‘ 
Some of the Melolonthe of Nepal are closely allied to our British M. vulgaris; others again, with the 
margins of the thorax serrated, evince their affinity to tropical species. Geniates, Apogonia, 
&e. are 
common to the Himalayas, the whole continent of India, and the Southern Isles. 
MIMELZ 
