4.52 CLASS INSECTA. 



neck, and which they buried with the mummies. The insect 

 itself has been found enclosed in some of their coffins. 



The ScarahcBUs sacer, of Linnaeus, or Ateuchus sacer of 

 Oliv., Col. I. 3. viii. 59, which is found not only throughout 

 all Egypt, but in the southern parts of France, in Spain, in 

 Italy, and in general to the south of Europe, had been hitherto 

 regarded as the object of this superstition ; but another 

 species discovered in the Sennari, by M. Caillaud de Nantes, 

 appears, in consequence of its more brilliant colours and of 

 the country in which it is found, which was the first sojourn 

 of the Egyptians, to have first fixed their attention. This 

 species, which I have' named Ateuchus of the Egyptians, 

 (Voyage a Meroe au Fleuve blanc, IV. p. 272. Att. d'Hist. 

 Nat. et d'Antiq. II. Iviii. 10.) is green, with a golden tint, 

 while the first is black. The hood has on one side and the 

 other six denticulations, but here the vertex has two small 

 eminences, or tubercles, instead of which that of the other, 

 or the A. of the Egyptians, presents but one feeble eminence, 

 elongated, smooth, and very shining. The corslet, with the 

 exception of the middle of the back, is entirely punctuated, 

 and even chagreened laterally, with denticulated edges. The 

 intervals of the striae of the elytra, are, besides, finely 

 chagreened, and present sunken points, tolerably numerous 

 and tolerably broad. The internal side of the two anterior 

 limbs presents a series of small teeth. In our Ateuchus sacer 

 this same side has usually two teeth, tolerably strong. 



Some of these insects (^S*. Esculapius, Oliv.) and another 

 species, Hippocrates, whose corslet and abdomen are shorter, 

 rounder, and more convex, in which the first articulation of 

 the labial palpi is also shorter and broader, in the form of a 

 reversed triangle, compose the genus Pachysomia, of Mr. 

 Kirby.* 



* Besides the above-mentioned ateuchi, refer to the same sub-genus 



