DIPELICUS. 311 



Keij to the Sjiecies. 



1 (4) Pronotum with a distinct posterior 



marginal Hue. 



2 (3) Elytra shining and little punctured . . hircits, F., p. 311. 



3 (2) Elytra rather closely striate-punctate. lacordairei, Sharp, p. 312. 



4 (1) Pronotum without a distinct posterior 



marginal line. 



5 (6) Stridulatory ridges of the propygidium 



very line anteriorly cantator, sp. n., p. 313. 



6 (6) Stridulatory ridges of the propygidium 



very coarse anteriorly bidens, sp. u., p. 313. 



284. Dipelicus hircus. 



Scarabaeus hircus, F., St/st. Ent. i, 1775, p. 13; Ent. Si/d. i, 1792, 



p. 21. 

 Geotrupes hircus, F., Si/st. Eleut. i, 1801, p. 18. 

 Oronotus hircus, Jlar., Coleopt, Hefte, viii, 1871, p. 121. 

 c?. Scarabpeus xantus, Oliv., Ent. i, 3, 1789, p. 180, pi. 27, fig. 235. 

 2 , Scarabseus diadema, Oliv., Ent. i, 3, 1789, p. 181 ; I. c, i, 5, pi. 5, 



fig. 63. 

 cT. Scarabseus dsedalus, F., Ent. Syst. i, 1792, p. 7. 

 Geotrupes dasdalus, F., Syst. Eleut. i, 1801, p. 7. 

 Horonotus dsedalus, Burm., Handb. Ent. v, 1847, p. 178. 

 (S 5 . Callicnemis eximius, Gtier., Voy. Favor, v, 1839, p. 134, pi. 40, 



tig. 2. 

 Xylotrupes solidipes, Walk., Ann. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, p. 54. 



Chestnut-red, thinly clothed with tawny hairs beneath ; cylin- 

 drical and convex in shape. The head is smooth, the jironotum 

 coarsely punctate-rugose, with the sides smoother, the lateral 



Fig. 75. — Dipelicus hircus, male, natural size, with lateral view 

 of head and thorax of male (above) and female (below). 



margins strongly curved and the base gently curved and bearing 

 an impressed marginal line. The scutellum is smooth and the 



