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INSECTS. 
and terminated in a perforated or solid club; with an oval or 
hemispherical body; the mentum large, and the maxillary palpi 
long. 
Genus S PER CHE US.— Fabricius. 
Generic Character. —Antennse consisting of six joints; desti¬ 
tute of spines on the legs ; exterior division of the jaws palpi- 
form, arched acute, and downy at the extremity; body hemi¬ 
spherical. 
Spercheus emarginatus. — The Emarginated Spercheus. 
Plate XCVIII. fig. 6. 
Head and throat black ; back dark brown, elytra dull red. 
Inhabits Europe, at the roots of water plant. 
TRIBE VI. -LAMELLICORNES. 
With from eight to eleven joints in the antennse, but only 
eight or ten in the greater number, inserted in a deep groove, 
always short, with a claviform termination, composed of plicated 
or pectinated laminae, or like the leaves of a book ; external 
side of the two anterior legs dentated; chin frequently large, 
covering the labium. 
Genus ORYCTES.— liliger. 
Generic Character. —With the labium concealed by the chin, 
the elytra not gaping; antennse ten-jointed, the last three 
forming the club; mandibles projecting; jaws coriaceous at 
their points, hairy, and destitute of teeth; males with an arcu¬ 
ated horn on the head, and the thorax truncated or hollowed 
before. 
Oryctes nasicornis — The Nose-Horned Oryctes. 
Plate XCVIII. fig. 3. 
Chestnut-brown above, pale chestnut below; male with a 
simple elevated recurved horn on its nose. Inhabits Europe, 
in gardens, &c. 
Genus SC ARABLE US.— Latreille. 
Generic Character. —With an oblong-ovate, convex body; the 
head narrowed in front, and armed with horns or tubercles 
