PACHYOBYCTES. — ORYOIES. 



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prothorax is coarsely punctured, the punctures being distinct behind 

 and confluent and rugose in front, and the front angles are less 



Fig. 62. — Pachyoryctes solidus, male, natural size, with lateral view of head 

 and thorax (above) and enlarged details of labium and maxilla (below). 



prominent than in the male. The scutellum is rather more 

 pointed and the elytra a little longer. 



Length 40-48 mm. ; breadth 23-26 mm. 



BuEMA : Karen Hills, 2700-3300 ft. {L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum ; cotype in the British Museum. 



The male has the appearance of a stout and broad Oryctes, while 

 the female greatly resembles that of a Trichogomphus, but the 

 structure of the hind tarsi, the maxillae, the horn of the male, etc., 

 show it to have a truer relationship with the Chalcosoma group, 

 although the absence of any elongation of the legs of the male 

 forms an important distinction from Chalcosoma, Eupatorus, etc. 



Genus ORYCTES. 



Oryctes, Illiger, Kiifei- Preussens, 1798, p. 11 ; Lacord,, Gen, Coleopt. 

 iii, 1856, p. 430. 



Type, Scarabceus nasicornis, L. 



Range. Europe, Asia, Africa and Madagascar. 



Eorm rather narrowly cylindrical, convex, smooth on the upper 

 surface, and clothed beneath with short erect hairs. Clypeus 

 triangular and blunt or bifid, with acute recurved angles. Head 

 armed in both sexes with a short horn, slender and recurved in 

 the male. Lower surface of the clypeus and organs of the mouth 



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