514 ANALYSIS. 



von Saisan in Tartaria magna misit D. Gehler ; e Cherso- 

 neso Taurico D. Steven. 



The nomenclature of this species is a singular instance 

 of the habitual carelessness of Fabricius. In the Species 

 Insectorum he described a Cape insect thorace Icsvi, under 

 the name oi'S.Jfagellatus. In the Mantissa, he gives the same 

 name to an insect of the South of Europe, thorace elytrisque 

 scabris. In the Systema Entomologite he confounds them 

 both, liaving evidently forgotten the ovig\na\ Jiagellatus so 

 much, as not to know it on its reappearance, since we find 

 it in the appendix to the last-mentioned work, described as 

 S. scabratus. And thus they stand in the Syst. Eleuthe- 

 ratorum, where the first habitat oi Jiagellatus ought con- 

 sequently to be expunged. Schonnher first perceived this 

 blunder, but has himself erred in taking any synonym for 

 scabratus from the Mantissa. 



humunui, 31. SCARAB/EUS atro-olivaceus holosericeus laevissimus baud 



■punctatus, clypeo bilineato : medio laevi, elytris sub lente 

 forti substriatis. 

 Gymnopleurus humanus. Leach MSS. 

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

 * * * Clypeus apice bidentatus, later ibus undatis. Corpus metalli- 

 cum, serkeum vel nitidum. Tjlytra striata vel suhstriata. In- 

 secta Africana. 



Leei. 32. SCARAB^TLUS rubro-cupreus liolosericeus, subtus atroviridis, 



clypeo thoraceque linea longitudinali nitida dimidiatis, 

 elytris subgranulatis, tibiis posticis seneis. 



S. Leei. Fab. Ent. Syst. 1.65. 215. 



Habitat ad Cap. Bonae Spei. D. Burchell. Mus. Brit. 



The reader will perceive that this species differs from 

 the Ateuchus Leei of Fabricius, in the under side being of 

 a dark-green instead of black, and its habitat being the 



