310 STATES OF INSECTS. (Jmago.) 
the horn is unarmed and simple at the apex. In D. 
Oromedon, Gedeon, Enema, and congeners, it is bifid. 
In some the horn is at first a broad lamina or ridge, 
which terminates in two branches, as in Onthophagus 
‘Vacca. In this the branches are straight; but in another 
undescribed species in my ‘cabinet (O. Aries) they are 
first bent inwards, and then at the apex a little recurved : 
and in D. dichotomus it is divided into two short branches, 
each of which is bifid?. Other males emulate the bull, 
the he-goat, or the stag, in having a pair of horns on 
their head. In Onthophagus Taurus, these arms in their 
curvature exactly resemble those of the first of these 
animals’, In Goliathus pujverulentus, the straight, ro- 
bust, diverging, sharp horns are not unlike'those of some 
of the goat or gazel tribe. I have a beautiful little spe- 
cimen in my cabinet, (I believe collected by Mr. Abbott 
of Georgia,) in which the horns have a lateral tooth, or 
short branch, like those of a stag; and which I have 
therefore named Onthophagus cervicornis. In O. Vacca, 
Camelus, &c. the horns are very short, and nearly per- 
pendicular. In the male of Copris Midas, the two longer 
perpendicular horns have a deep cavity between them, 
which, together with its black colour, give it a most de- 
moniac aspect; so that you would think it more aptly 
representative of a Beelzebub or Beelzebul than a Mi- 
das*, or than Phaneus Beelzebul MacL. A similar: ca- 
vity is between the occipital horns of Diaperis hemor- 
rhoidalis. Some species of Cryptorhynchus, as C. Taurus, 
have a pair of long horns upon the rostrum of the male, | 
* Oliv. Scarab@us, t. xvil. f. 156. 
> Ibid. t. viii. f. 63. Curtis Brit. Ent. t. v1. 
© This insect is beautifully figured in M. Latreille’s Insectes sacres 
des Egyptiens, f.11. See Luke xi. 15. Heb. 22193 Dominus stercoris. 
