470 CLASS INSECTA. 



ScARAB.EUs, properly so called, Geotrupes, Fab. 



Have the body thick, convex, and the outer side of the man- 

 dibles sinuous or toothed. 



The equatorial countries of both continents furnish some 

 very remarkable species. 



S. Hercules, Lin. Oliv. Col. I. 3, 1, 23, 1. Five inches 

 long, black, with the case greenish grey, spotted with black ; 

 the male has on the head a bent indented horn, and another 

 long, advanced, downy underneath, with a tooth on each side 

 on the corslet. — South America. Some travellers have called 

 it the horned fly. This species is the type of the genus 

 Dynastes, of Mr. Kirby. S. Actceoti forms another, that of 

 Negasoma. See the 14th volume of the Linnaean Trans- 

 actions, 



S. dichotomus, Oliv. ibid. xvij. 156. Marron brown; a 

 large horn forked in two branches on the head, another smaller 

 bent and bifid at the extremity on the corslet of the male. — 

 India. 



S. longimanus, Lin. Oliv. ibid. iv. 27. Fulvous brown, 

 without horns or tubercles on the head or corslet ; the two 

 fore feet are one half longer than the body, and arched. — 

 India. 



France has but one species of this sub-genus, S. punctatus, 

 Oliv. ibid. viij. 70. The body is black, dotted, without ele- 

 vation, in the form of a horn in either sex. The hood is 

 trvnicated in front, with the angle thereof a little elevated, 

 like a tooth ; the middle of the head has two neighbouring 

 tubercles.* 



Phileurus, Lat. Geotrupes, Fab. 



Differ from Scarabseus only in having the mandibles nar- 



* Geotriipes of Fabncius, except the species before cited, forming G. 

 ort/des, and of those of the following genus. 



