156 EAMELLICOKNES. — SCAR ABiEIDiE. 



£ . — Ste. M. iii. 173. — Dusky-brassy ; pubescent : elytra finely striate, 

 lurid-griseous, sprinkled with somewhat united dusky-bronze spots, mostly 

 disposed in lines : g with the clypeus narrowed iu front, reflexed, with an 

 obsolete bent ridge on the middle and a 2d behind, tooth at each end, and 

 produced in the middle into a long spine, or horn, bending forwards ; 

 thorax excavated in front; <j? with the clypeus shorter, occiput with 2 

 raised lines, the hinder 1 shortest; thorax entire. (L. 3-4 1.) In dung: 

 common in S. of England, and in S. Wales : 5-6. 



1243 coenobita Fab. E. i. 49. — - Pz. F. xlviii. f. 6. — Ste. M. iii. 173.— 

 Brassy-green ; pubescent : elytra pale griseous-red, spotless or faintly 

 sprinkled with greenish spots ; slightly striated : <? with the clypeus 

 notched in front and reflexed ; occiput with a ridge produced in the middle 

 into an erect horn ; thorax excavated in front : £ with 2 single occipital 

 ridges; thorax 2-tuberculated in front. (L. 3-4 1.) In dung; sandy 

 places : Hampstead ; Gravesend, &c. ; sparingly distributed over the S. of 

 England: 5-6. 



(1244f austriacus Sc/meid. — Pz. F. xii. f. 6. — Ste. M. iii. 174. note. — 

 Dull black, pilose : elytra griseous, obsoletely striated ; with some black 

 spots in the interstices : $ with the clypeus smooth, narrowed in front ; 

 occiput with a slender ridge produced in the middle into a sharp spine ; 

 thorax deeply excavated in front : £ with clypeus shorter, with 2 small 

 ridges on the occiput, and a notched central tubercle in front of the thorax. 

 (L. 5\-6 1.) Improperly given as British.) 



1245 Dillwynii Kirbij. — Ste. M. iii. 174. pi. 18. f. 6. — Brassy-black, 

 slightly pubescent: elytra faintly striated, lurid, reticulated with bronzed- 

 black : (j with the clypeus smooth; crown with a slight ridge, and occiput 

 with a distinct 1, bearing a slightly nutant horn in the middle; thorax 

 with 2 central tubercles in an excavation in front : <j> with 2 curved ridges 

 on the occiput ; thorax entire. (L. 2|-3^ 1.) In dung; sea coasts, &c. ; 

 meadows near Gravesend ; Swansea ; coasts of Suffolk ; Kent ; Suffolk ; 

 Hants, &c. : 5-6. 



1246 nuchicornis L. ii. 547. — Don. viii. pi. 255. f. 2. — Ste. M. iii. 175. 

 — Brassy-black, pubescent : elytra striated, irregularly sprinkled with 

 bronzed clouds : $ with the clypeus notched ; vertex with a bent, ridge, 

 occiput with a dilated 1, rising in the middle into an acute spine; part of 

 thorax slightly retuse: 9 with 2 ridges on the clypeus, the anterior 1 bent; 

 thorax produced in front in the middle. (L. 2^-3 1.) In dung: gene- 

 rally distributed : 3-7. 



1247 nutans Fab. E. i. 50. —Don. viii. pi. 255. f. 1. — Ste. M. iii. 175.— 

 Black, slightly pubescent ; elytra faintly punctate- striate : $ with an 

 obscure ridge on the vertex, produced behind into a broad elevated leaf, 

 terminating in a long nutant horn ; thorax with a deep notch in front, to 

 receive the occipital horn : <j> with 2 ridges on the clypeus ; thorax with a 

 bifid central lobe. (L. 3^-4 1. ) In dung: rather local; Darenth Wood; 

 Epping Forest, &c. ; occasionally in midland and northern counties : 

 5-6. 



1248 ovatus L. ii. 551. — Pz. F. xlviii. f. 11. — Ste. M. iii. 176. — Black; 

 obscure ; pubescent : clypeus rounded, with 2 ridges, the anterior 1 curved, 

 the 2d shorter and more elevated ; elytra obsoletely crenate-striate ; thorax 

 with a slight tubercle in the middle. (L. 2-2^ 1.) In sheep's dung: 

 Ripley ; Hertford ; Darenth ; Bottisham, &c. : 5-6. 



230 Oniticellus Ziegler? 



(12.491 vertieicornis Fab. E. S. i. 61. — Ste. M. iii. 176. note. — Black; 

 clypeus rounded, brassy, with a very short recurved horn : thorax rounded, 



