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with the posterior sides of the corslet cut abruptly, and in an 

 oblique direction. The intermediate haunches are directed in 

 the line of the length of the body, and parallel to its sides. 



In all the following coprophagi, the four posterior limbs 

 are always dilated at their extremity, and almost in the form 

 of an elongated triangle ; the intermediate, as in the last, in 

 two strong spines, or spurs ; but the head, or the corslet, or 

 both, present in the males horns or eminences, which distin- 

 guish them from the other sex. In many, the last three arti- 

 culations of the antennse, semicupular, are emboxed con- 

 centrically. These insects are referred to the genera Ojiitis 

 and Copris of Fabricius. 



Two sub-genera, with antennary foliated knob, present us 

 a character which, in this section, is exclusively peculiar to 

 themselves. The third articulation of the labial palpi is 

 little, or not at all distinct, and the preceding is larger than 

 the first. 



Oniticellus 



Have the body oblong, depressed, with the corslet large, 

 almost oval, and nearly as long as broad, and always smooth. 

 The scutellum is distinct. Some simple raised lines, or tu- 

 bercles of the head, distinguish the males from the females. 



Onthophagus, Latr. Copris, Fab. 



Present no scutellum. Their body is short, with the cors- 

 let tolerably thick, broader than long, whether semi-orbicu- 

 lar, or almost orbicular, but strongly emarginated or trun- 

 cated in front. The head, and often the corslet also, is 

 horned in the males. 



♦S*. Taurus, Lin. Oliv. Col. I. 3. viii. 63. Small, black ; 

 two arched horns in a semicircle on the head of the male ; two 

 raised and transverse lines on that of the female. Found in 

 cow-dung. 



