8 INSECTA. 



ber, is semi-cuculliform and receives the following one, a portion of 

 which at least is concealed and is shaped like a horse-shoe ; the third 

 or last is in the form of a reversed cup. The thorax is large, and 

 usually presents two little fossulae near the middle of the posterior 

 margin. In 



Onitis, Fab., 



The second joint of the lahial palpi is the largest, and the scutellum, 

 though very small and depressed, is still visible. The anterior legs 

 are generally longer, more slender and arcuated in the males. The 

 tarsi are usually deficient, and the thorax, that of a small number ex- 

 cepted, is without horns *. 



Phan^us, Mac Leay. — Lonchophorus, Germ. — Scarab^us, L. — 

 CopRis, Onitis, Fab. 



Where the first joint of the labial palpi is the largest and dilated on 

 the internal side. A simple sutural hiatus indicates the place of the 

 scutellum. The males differ greatly from the females in the horn- 

 like prominences of their head and thorax ; but the respective length 

 of the legs is the same. 



Several large and beautiful species of Copris, Fab., peculiar 

 to America, compose this subgenus f. 



CopRis, Geoff. Fab. — Scarab^us, Lin. 



This subgenus, or Copris properly so called, is at present composed 

 of those species only, whose antennse are terminated by a trifoliate 

 club ; in which the four posterior tibiae, are strongly dilated and trun- 

 cated at the extremity ; that have neither scutellum nor hiatus ; in 

 which the body is always thick, and differs above according to the 

 sex, and whose labial palpi are composed of three distinct joints, of 

 which the first is the largest, almost cylindrical and not dentated on 

 the inner side. 



The largest species belong to those parts of Africa or India 

 that are situated between the tropics or in their immediate vici- 

 nity. 



C. lunaris; S. lunaris, L.; Oliv,, lb., v, 36. Eight lines in 

 length ; black, very glossy ; the head emarginated at the anterior 

 edge, is provided with a long horn, longer and pointed in the 

 male, short and truncated in the female — S. emarginatus, Oliv., 

 lb., viii, 64 — thorax truncated before, with a horn on each side ; 

 elytra deeply striated |. 

 Like the Lamellicornes of the ensuing section, the last Coprophagi 

 have all their feet inserted equidistant from each other, and a very 



* See Encyc. Method., article Onitis. 



t See Encyc. M(''thod., article Phunee, anil particularly the Hor. Entom., I, p. 

 124. The author of the latter refers to it the following Scarabseides of Olivier : Sc. 

 bellicosus, lancifer, jasius, mimas, beelzebuf, festivus, carnifex, &c. 



X The Copris : Anterior, Hamadryas, Midas, gigas, bucephalus, molossus, hispanus, 

 nemetrinus, nemestrinus, sabceus, Jachus, &c., of Fabricius ; the Ateuchus Tmolus, 

 Fischer, Eatomog. Russ., I, viii, 1, 2, is a Copris. 



