190|.] Appendix. I C • 897 



Sub-Family COPRIN^. 



SCARAB.EINI. 



Gen. SCARAB.EUS Lin. 



Sc.\R.4.BiEUS CANALicuLATUs, Pairm., p. 56. 



I have been able, through Mons. Fairra aire's courtesy, to examine 

 the type of this species. Its nearest ally is S. flavicornis, but it is 

 twice as large, and the pul^escence on the legs is fulvous brown ; the 

 punctures on the centre of the disk are equally deep but more closely 

 set, and the sides as well as the anterior part are more scabrose, the 

 smooth median longitudinal line is less regular ; the costae of the 

 •elytra are still sharper and more raised than in S. flavicornis, and are 

 not punctulate. 



Gen. SISYPHUS, Latr., p. 98. 



I have been able, through the kindness of the authorities of the 

 Genova Museum, to examine some of Gory's types of this genus 

 belonging to that Institution, and as a result of this examination I 

 have come to the following conclusions : — 



Sisyphus appendiculatiis, Bohem., is the same species as S. quadri- 

 collis and S. hessi, Gory, as stated by me, p. 103. 



SisypJius crispatns, Gory, is the same species as S. liirtas, Gory. 

 The name of S. goryi, proposed by Harold as a substitute for 

 S. liirtus, this name having been already used for a species of the 

 genus, must therefore be dropped, and that of S. crispatus retained. 



Sisyphus spinipes, Gory (? = S'. spinipes, Thunb., teste Harold), is 

 a very different species from the one I described under that name, 

 and which I now take to be, perhaps wrongly, S. rugosus, Gory, but 

 the type of this species is no longer to be found. 



Sisyphus capcnsis, Gory, Monogr., p. 12, pi. i., fig. 8 is no longer 

 in the Gory Collection. I have not been able to identify the species. 



Sisyphus spinipes, Gor., 

 Monogr., 1833, p. 8, pi. i., fig. 4. 

 ?<S. spinipes, Thimb., Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 411. 

 This species belongs to the sections A- and B- of the genus 

 {vide p. 100). The shape and colour are those of S. quadricollis, 

 the vestiture is the same, but the shape of the intermediate and 

 XDOsterior legs is different; the anterior tibiae are bi-dentate under- 

 neath, the intermediate femora are plainly scooped underneath 

 towards the apical part, and between this incision and the knee 



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