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varnish. Head quadrangular, margined and furrowed. Thorax smooth and finely polished. Scutellum 

 large and triangular. Elytra slightly striated, with punctures, and margined. Sternum long and 

 slender. Tibias with two spurs. 



This species, according to Mr. Smeathman, frequents flowers ; thus resembling in its 

 habits the British species of the family to which it belongs. 



DYNASTES ^GEON. 



Plate XXX. fig. 5. 



Okder : Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: BynastiHie, Mlac Leay. 



Genus. Dynastes, 3Iac Leay. Geotnipes, Fabr. Scarabfeus p. lAnn. Scarabaeus, Latreille. 



Dynastes iEoEON. Rufus, thoracis cornu brevi iiicurvo subtus barbato, capitis recurvo subulato. (Long. Corp. 



1 unc. 6 lin.) 

 Sm. Scarabisus iEgeon, Drury, App. vol. 2. Fabr. Ent. Sijst.p. 4. No. 4. Syst. Eleuth. I. p. 6. No. 8. 



(Geotrupes ^g.) Oliv. Ent. 1.3./). 26. No. 26. t. \.f. 4. Jabl. Nat. Syst. \.p. 228. No. G. t. I./.4. 



Sch. Syn. Ins. I. p. 4. No. 13. 

 Habitat: ^' la Iniiis" (Fabricius). Penivia (Dejean.). 



Head small and black, from whence springs a horn that bends towards the body. Eyes red brown. 

 Thorax red brown, with a black margin ; having a short thick horn issuing from it, that inclines towards 

 the head : it has also a faint black spot on each side. Scutellum black and triangular. Elytra red brown ; 

 the margins and suture being black. Abdomen black, covered with olive brown hairs. Legs black. 

 Hinder and fore tibi;e with three short spines, placed on the external part of each ; and with two spurs, 

 those of the middle ones being shortest. Ungues having a single hair issuing from between the hooks, 

 forked at the end. 



DYNASTES GERYON. 



Plate XXX. fig. 6. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Lamellicornes. Family : Dynastidse. 



Genus. Dynastes, il/ocXeaj/. Geotrupes, iPaftr. Scarabceus p. Linn. 



Dynastes Gery'ON. Thorace excavato tricorni ; lateralibus compressis unidentatis; capitis recurvo sumplici. 

 (Long. Corp. 1 unc. T^ lin.) 



Syn. Scarabwus Geryon, JJrury, App. vol. 2. Fabr. Syst. Ent. l.p.O. No. 21. Syst. Eleuth. 1. p.ll. No. 31. 

 (Geotrupes G.) Schonh. Syn. Ins. 1. p. 10. 41. Oliv. Ent. 1. 3. p. 30. t. 24. No. 208. 



Habitat: " In Indiis" (Fabr.). 



Head small, and margined in front; being furnished with a single horn that bends towards the 

 thorax. Thorax margined, and dai'k brown (the general colour of the insect) ; being armed with three 

 remarkable horns, whereof two are placed in front, one on each side ; being very strong and broad one 

 way, but thin the other, and branched at their extremities. The other horn is placed on the hinder 

 part of the thorax, being short and thick at bottom, but sharp and pointed at top ; springing from a 

 protuberance that almost covers the escutcheon, which is small and triangular. All these horns are 

 immoveable, and their situations occasion a most remarkable hollowness or cavity in the thorax, which 



