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 reversedcup. ‘The thorax is large, and 
usually presents two little fossule near the middle of the posterior 
margin. In 
Onitis, Fab., 
The second joint of the labial 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 *. 
Puanayus, Mac Leay.—Loncuornorvs, Germ.—Scarasaus, L.— 
Copris, Onrris, 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 +. 
Copris, Geoff. Fab.—Scarapaus, Lin. 
This subgenus, or Copris properly so called, is at present composed 
of those species only, whose antenne are terminated by a trifoliate 
club; in which the four posterior tibice 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., Ib., v, 36. Eight lines in 
length; black, very glossy; the head emarginated at the anterior 
edge, is provided with a long hern, longer and pointed in the 
male, short and truncated in the erneiree S! emarginatus, Oliv., 
Tb., viii, 64—thorax truncated before, with a horn on each side ; 
ely tra deeply striated f. 
Like the Lamellicornes of the ensuing section, the last Coprophagi 
have all their feet inserted equidistant from each other, and a very 
* See Encyc. Méthod., article Onitis. 
+ See Encyc. Méthed., article Phanée, and particularly the Hor. Entom., I, p. 
124. The author of the latter refers to it the following Scarabeides of Olivier: Sc. 
bellicosus, lancifer, jasius, mimas, beelzebut, festivus, carnifex, &c. 
+ The Copris: Antenor, Hamadryas, Midas, gigas, bucephalus, molossus, hispanus, 
nemetrinus, nemestrinus, sabaus, Jachus, &c., of Fabricius; the Atcuchus Tmolus, 
Fischer, Entomog. Russ., I, viii, 1, 2, is a Copris. 
