granulatus. 



516 ANALYSIS. 



Scarabffiiis Koenigii. Fab. St/st. Ent. 1, 29. 114. 

 Scarabaeus scriptus. Pa//. Icon. p. 7. A. 7. T.A, f. 7. 



guttatus. Linn. S. N. Ginel. 1. 4. 1558. 



Ateuchus Koenigii. Fab. Si/st. Eleuth. 1 58. 19. 

 Habitat in India orientali. Mus. Brit. 

 /3 Var. S. atro-£eneiis, thorace punctis quatuor elevatis. 



Obs. Speciem simillimam circa Lacum salsum Inderiensem 

 Deserti Tatarici legit D. Pallas. 



The Ateuchus squalidus from Brazil, which Fabricius 

 characterizes as " Affinis A. Kamigii," does not belong to 

 this genus, although to one immediately contiguous. The 

 mistake is analogous to that of Linnaeus in confounding 

 pilularius with volvens. Gmelin has described the S. Ka- 

 9iigii twice under different names ; and his work, " tout 

 indigeste, denue de critique et de counaissance des choses" 

 as usual, justifies this character given to it by Cuvier. 



39. SCARABiEUS niger supra cinereo-pubescens, capite maculis 

 nitidis duabus, thorace sedecim, elytris basi octo ; medio iina 

 undata; apice tribus, abdominis lateribus albo-guttatis, 

 ano albo. 



S. granulatus. Fab. Ent. Si/st. 1. 65. 217. 



S. Kcenigii. Don. Tnd. Ins. t. 2. f. 3. 



Hffic species, a praecedente oranino distincta, habitat Tran- 

 quebariffi. Mus. Brit. 



Illiger has observed in his Magazine i. p. 318, that Fa- 

 bricius was wrong in citing the S. granulatus oi Ohvier as 

 a synonym to this species ; but he little suspected the real 

 extent of the evil. It is indeed among the most curious 

 circumstances attending the history of this unfortunate ge- 

 nus, of which scarcely a species has escaped an error of 

 nomenclature, that the S. granulatus of Olivier is no other 

 than Ateuchus scabratus or the original S. Jlagellatus of 



