ORYCTES NASICORNIS. 



Plate XXXIV. fig. 7. <?.— 8. $. 



Order; Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Fa.mily: Dynastidse. 



Genus. Oryctes, Illiger. Geotrupes, Ftibr. Scarabaeus, Linn. 



Oryctes Nasicornis. Thorace prominentia triplici, capitis cornu recurvo, elytris Isevibus. (Long. CoiT5. 

 1 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Scarabteus Nasicornis, Linn. Sijsf. Nat. 1. 11. p. 544. No. 15. Oliv. Ent. 1. 3. p. 37. No. 41. t. 3./. 19. 

 a-d. Panzer Faun. Ins. G.'2S. No. 2. $. Eoesel Itui. U. \. p. -11— 65. n. 5. t. 7./. S. ^ . f. iO. J. 

 §• t. 6, 8 §• 9. Larva, Pupa, &c. Stephens Illustr. Brit. Ent. Mandibulata, 3. p. 216. 



Habitat ; Holland, and otlier parts of Europe. 



Male. Head black, with a horn temiinating in a point, and bending backwards. Eyes red brown. 

 Thorax brown, almost black, margined and prominent, terminating upwards in three pointed tubercles. 

 Scutellum black, and nearly triangular. Elytra red brown, smooth, shining, slightly margined. The 

 abdomen, legs, and all the under parts of a red brown, and hairy. Tibiae spined. 



Female. Resembles the male in every thing but the head and thorax ; having on the former, instead 

 of the horn, a small tubercle, and on the latter a small impression in the place of the pointed knobs. 



This insect has been introduced into the list of British species on the authority 

 of the late Mr. Haworth, who recorded the fact of a living specimen having been 

 taken by a bricklayer amongst old timber, on pulling down the roof of a building at 

 Chelsea, (Entom. Trans, vol. i. p. 76.) Mr. Stephens, however, (loc. supra citat.) thinks 

 it very doubtful whether the species be really indigenous, as it appears highly probable 

 that the specimen above alluded to, may have been imported amongst some of the Conti- 

 nental plants which abound in the above vicinity, the insect occurring very copiously in 

 rotten bark, the refuse of conservatories, and putrid wood in various parts of the 

 Continent. 



COPRIS SULCATUS. 



Plate XXXV. fig. 1. 



Order. Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: Scarabseidse. 



Genus. Copris, Geoffrey. Scaraboeus, Linn. 



CoPRis SuLCATUS. Ater, capitis tuberculo unico, elytris striatis, thorace antiee linea irregulari dorsali impresso. 

 (Long. Corp. 1 unc.) 



Syn. Scarabseus Sulcatus, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Scarabteus Sulcator, Oliv. Ins. 1. 3. 142. Mltab. 26./. 225? 



Copris Sulcata, Fabridus Syst. Eleitth. I. p. 53. No. 104. Ent. Syst.l.p.dl. Nu. 2Ui). 



Habitat : Jamaica. 



Head broad and thin, hairy underneath ; terminating in a short straight horn, inclining backwards, 

 with a small tubercle on each side. Eyes almost surrounded by the thin sides of the head, being placed 

 so as to see both above and below it. Thorax margined, with several protuberances on its front; and 

 on the top with a strong indented line running from the front to the suture of the elytra, where likewise 



