ANALYSIS. 499 



Ateuchus Hottentottus. Lat. in Cat. Mus. Gall. Reg. MSS. 

 /S Var. S. anchora dorsali inconspicua. thoracisque punctis obso- 

 letis. 



Habitat ad Cap. Bon. Spei. Mus. Brit. 



6. SCARABZEUS ater, clypeo ti'ituberculato, thorace antice vix impius. 



scabroso, elytris punctis minutissimis granulatis. 

 Scarabffius impius. Herbst, col. 2. p. 302. n. 196. t. 20. f. 1. ? 

 Habitat . Aut exemplar Herhstianum, aut unum illud 



singulariter simulans in Mus, Mac-Lea^ano hospitatur. 



This species answers so exactly to the description and 

 figure of S, impius given by Herbst, that I have httle 

 doubt of its being the same. It is clear that the above 

 specific character does not at all answer to S. Sacer, and 

 the only circumstance in which it positively differs from 

 that of Herbst's insect is in the clypeus having three tuber- 

 cles, whereas this author says that in the middle of the 

 clypeus there is an elevated line, " die in der mitte getheilt 

 ist, so dass sie das ansehen zweyer stumpfer erhohungen 

 hat." It was owing probably to this opinion, which 

 may have resulted from a careless examination, ns well as 

 to the specific character given by Herbst, which rests on 

 a variation appai'ently common to every species of the type, 

 that Fabricius made it a variety of S. Sacer. From this, 

 however, Herbst's figure and the sculpture of the elytra 

 as above given sufficiently separate it. 



7. SCARABiEUS atro-seneus, clj^peo tuberculato : linea utrinque Lamarckii. 



ad occiput connivente, thorace antice tuberculis scabro, ely- 

 tris punctis minutissimis granulatis paucisque majoribus vix 

 impressis. 



Habitat in Senegallia. 



Insectum Artis Zoologica: magistro dicatum. 



8. SCARAB;E,US ater, clypeo medio vix cornuto : linea transversa Cuvieri. 



2 K 2 



