512 ANALYSIS. 



Actinophorus Geoffroyi. Sturm. Ent. Hand, 1.78. 

 Ateuchus pilularius. Var. |S. Schonnher Syn. Ins. 

 Habitat in Europa meridionali magnitudme udmodum variuns. 

 Vix ipsi accedis, plerumqve statim avolat clamis elytris, Ce- 

 tonitE ad instar, ita ut minuti spatio ex 100 qui simul 

 convenerint vix icnus maneat. Vide Laur. Ponza in Act 

 Taur. 

 j8 Var. S. dypeo inter lineas duas concurrentes tuberculato, elytro- 



rum striis valde conspicuis. 

 y Var. S. clypeo bilineato : lineis concurrentibus, thoracis linea 

 dorsali elytroniinque striis inconspicuis. 

 ScarabsEus Mopsus. Pall. Icon. p. 3. A. 3. 



No species is more common, or less distinctly known, 

 than G. pilularius, as the above synonyms testify. Lin- 

 naeus was never able to distinguish it from A. vohens, an 

 American insect, which belongs to the neighbouring genus, 

 and has a strong relation of analogy with this. Fabricius 

 has carelessly copied, into all his works, the Linnaean ha- 

 bitat o^ pilularius, even after he had distinguished the two 

 ' species ; and has thereby made a great mistake in the 



geography of insects, since no tme Scaj-abaus, as the ge- 

 nus stands in this Essay, is to be found in the new world. 



Sturmii. 28. SCARABiEUS ater lasvis vix obscurus, clypeo trilineato, elytris 



inter strias granulatis femoribus anticis obtuse dentatis, ti- 

 biisanticis inter dentes haudcrenulatis : calcare acutissimo. 

 Actinophorus pilularius. Sturm. Ent. Hand. 1. 79. t. 3. 

 Prsecedente minor convexior. 



Habitat in Europa australiori ; in Grecia. D. Woods. 

 j8 Var. S. elytrorum striis et granulis inconspicuis, tibiis anticis 

 bidentatis. 



Habitat in Lusitania. 

 y Var, S. elytris sublaevibus. 



