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6. Ateuchus. 



Sp. 6. Sanctus. — This insect is liable to vary 

 considerably in colour ; the green and blue varieties 

 are abundant in various parts of India ; the copper 

 coloured variety may be considered rare. It is a 

 question well worth inquiry what is the real cause 

 of the above variations of colours. 



Sp. 12. Bacchus. — This is the type of Cercellium, 

 according to Latreille. Mr. MacLeay, however, 

 informs me that Bacchus was considered by Illiger 

 as the true type of Canthon ; a second species 

 allied to it has been figured from my collection, and 

 published under the name of Cercellium Lyseus, by 

 Mr. Westwood, it was received from Sierra Leone. 



Sp. 15, Hollandice — The insect which is met 

 with in the French cabinets bearing the above 

 name, is not the same as that in the Fabrician 

 cabinet ; there are three or four undescribed spe- 

 cies in dififerent collections, and as it appears to 

 offer characters sufficient to form a sub-genus, I 

 suggest the adoption of the term Tesserodon, ex- 

 pressing the dentation of the Clypeus, which differs 

 from all the other Scarabseidae. 



Sp. 21. Cupreus. — This appears to be the same 

 insect as the Onitis Belial, Fab. which in a former 



