366 IN SECT A. 



S. Hercules, Lin. Five inches long; black; elytra greenish-grey mottled 

 with black: a recurved and dentated horn on the head of the male, and a 

 second one, long, projecting and pilose beneath, with a tooth on each side of 

 the thorax. South America. Some travellers call it the Mouche cornue. 



This section also includes Phileurus, Rutela, Oryctes, &c. &c. 



The PHYLLOPHAGI consist of Scarabacides whose mandibles are covered above 

 by the epistoma, and concealed beneath by the maxilla- ; their outer side is 

 alone exposed, without however overlapping ; their outer side presents none of 

 the sinuses or dentations observed there in Rutela and other analogous sub- 

 genera. The anterior edge of the labrum is exposed ; it is sometimes in the 

 form of a reversed and wide triangle, and most frequently transversely lamini- 

 form, and emarginated in the middle The number of the antennal joints is 

 not constant, and varies from eight to ten ; the same remark applies to those 

 of the club, and in several, with respect to this, the two sexes differ greatly. 

 The ligula is entirely covered by the mentum, or incorporated with its anterior 

 face, and the elytra are completely joined along the whole of the suture, cha- 

 racters which distinguish these insects from those of the fifth section. 



In the ANTHOBII the antennae are composed of nine or ten joints, the three 

 last of which alone form the club in both sexes. The lobe terminating the 

 maxilla- is frequently almost membranous, silky, penicilliform, coriaceous, and 

 dentated along the inner edge in others. The kbrum and mandibles are more 

 or less solid in proportion as they are more or less exposed. The Anthobii 

 live on flowers or leaves. 



Some of these Insects inhabit the north of Africa and other countries 

 situated on the Mediterranean ; most of the others are found in the higher 

 portions of western Asia. 



The genera that compose this section are Glaphyrus, Amphicoma, An- 

 thipna, Sec. 



The sixth and last section of the Scarabsides, that of the MELITOPHILI, is 

 composed of insects in which the body is depressed, most commonly oval, 

 brilliant, and without horns, and the thorax is trapeziform, or nearly orbicu- 

 lar; an axillary part, in the greater number, occupies the space comprised 

 between the posterior angles and the exterior of the base of the elytra. The 

 sternum is frequently extended into a point or projecting horn. The hooks of 

 the tarsi are equal and simple. The antenna? consist of ten joints, the three 

 last of which form a club, always foliaceous. The labrum and mandibles are 

 concealed, laminiform, flattened, and membranous, or nearly so. The maxillae 

 terminate in a silky, penicilliform lobe without horny teeth. The mentum is 

 commonly ovoid, truncated superiorly, or almost square, and the middle of the 

 superior margin more or less concave or emarginate. The ligula is not salient. 



The larvae live in rotten wood. The perfect insect is found on flowers, and 

 frequently on trunks of trees, that give out a fluid which they suck. 



This section is susceptible of being separated into three principal divisions, 

 the first of which corresponds to the genus Trichius, Fab. ; the second to that 

 of Goliath, Lam. ; and the third to Cetnnia, Fab., but reduced and simplified. 



