BOLBOCERUS. GEOTRUPES. 157 



smooth, griseous, with 2 anterior and 1 lateral spot, black ; elytra smooth, 

 griseous ; legs pale. (L. 4 1.) Stated, erroneously, to be British.) 



Fam. 29. GEOTRUPIDJE MacLeay. 



ccxxxi. Bolbocerus Body nearly orbicular : ant. short, 2d joint large, cup- 

 shaped, longer than the Sd, which is transverse ; club large, oval : head in 

 $ with a horn, sometimes moveable ; tho. cornuted in <£ , slightly tuber- 

 culate in $ : tarsi long, 4th joint smallest. 



ccxxxii. Typhceus Body ovate-orbicular: ant. slender, 2d joint globose, 

 shorter than the 3d, which is elongate ; club ovate : clypeus with a central 

 tubercle : tho. in <? produced anteriorly into 3 horns, in o tuberculated 

 in front. 



ccxxxiii. Geotrupes Body ovate-orbicular : ant. rather slender, 2d joint 

 globose, shorter than 3d, which is elongate ; club oval : clypeus rhomboidal, 

 with a sharpish central tubercle : tho. unarmed in both sexes : tarsi with 

 the basal joint shortest. 



231 Bolbocerus Kirby. 



1250 mobilicornis Fab. E. i. 24. — Cur. vi. pi. 259. ? — Ste. M. iii. 178. — 

 Black, sometimes with a chestnut tinge, beneath testaceous : elytra deeply 

 punctate-striate ; legs and club of antennae chestnut, base of latter tawny : 



S with a long, linear, slightly recurved moveable horn on the clypeus ; 

 thorax 4-dentate in front : o with obsolete tubercles on the head and 

 thorax. (L. 4 1.) In dung: Hertford; Darenth ; Birchwood; Dart- 

 ford ; Dorking : 7 ; Coombe Wood ; Wisbeach : 4 ; Moushold Heath, 

 Norwich ; and near Bristol : 5-6. 



1251 testaceus Fab. E. i. 26. — Pz. F. xxviii. f. 5 Ste. M. iii. 178. — 



Rusty- testaceous, beneath paler: eyes black; elytra punctate-striate : $ 

 with a shortish, slightly recurved, acute horn on the clypeus ; thorax with 

 4 small tubercles in front : $ with 2 minute tubercles on the clypeus. 

 (L. 3-S£ 1.) In Norfolk and Suffolk, flying : 5-6. 



1252f quadridens Fab. E. i. 23. — Pz. F. xii. £ 1 Ste. M. iii. 179 



Dull-red ; elytra punctate-striate : $ with a short immoveable horn on the 

 clypeus ; thorax with 4 nearly equidistant obtuse teeth near the anterior 

 margin : <j> with a faint ridge on the occiput, and another more obscure 

 towards the front of the thorax. (L. 6 1.) Marshes between Peter- 

 borough and "Wisbeach, during a flood : 4. 



232 Typhceus Leach. 



1253 vulgaris Leach Sam. 187. pi. 1. f. 1 Ste. M. iii. 180. — Black, 



shining : clypeus angulated, with a dorsal ridge ; thorax smooth in the 

 middle, the sides punctated and foveolated ; elytra striated, in rare in- 

 stances chestnut : £ with an advanced acute horn at each anterior angle 

 of the thorax, and a shorter ascending one in the middle : o with the 

 lateral horns very short, and in place of the central one, a long transverse 

 ridge. Sometimes the thoracic horns are considerably longer than the 

 head, at others much shorter. (L. 4^-11 1.) Under cow-dung; on 

 heaths and commons, generally distributed, but rare towards the north : 

 4-6. 



233 Geotrupes Latreille. 



1254 vernalis L. ii. 551. — Don. xvi. pi. 547. f. I. — Ste. M. iii. 181. — 

 Somewhat hemispheric ; glossy violet- or blue-black, or greenish : club of 

 the antennae fuscous ; thorax very obsoletely punctate on the disc, rather 

 coarsely so on the sides, which have a deep fovea ; elytra smooth, faintly 



