INDIA. 



Order. COLEOPTERA. Linnceus. 



DYNASTES (CHALCOSOMA) ATLAS. 



Plate T. 



Geotrupes, Fabricius. (Subgenus 



Tribe. Lamfxlicornes, Latreille. 



Family. Dynastid.e, MacLeay. 



Genus. Dynastes, MacLeay. Scarabseus, Latreille. 

 Chalcosorna, Hope.) 



Species. Dynastes Atlas : cupreo-niger, thorace trioorni ; anteriori brevissimo ; capitis 

 cornu longissimo adscendente, in medio dente armato. Long. Corp. 3£ unc, 

 (absque cornu capitis). 

 Dynastes : coppery black ; the thorax with three horns, the central one very 

 short ; the head with a long ascending horn, with a tooth in the middle. Length 

 of the body, without the horn of the head, 3| inches. 



Syn. Scarabseus Atlas ? Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. I, pars 2, p. 542. Mus. Lud. Reg. 6. Fabri- 

 cius Syst. Eleuth. I. p 10, No. 29. Sioammerdam's Book of Nature, tab. 30, f. 3. 

 Margr. Brazil, 247, f. 1. Merian Ins. Surinam, in title page. Edwards's Birds, 

 tab. 105,/ 1. 



This is one of the most extraordinary species of the great Scarabasi of Linnaeus. 

 The specimen here figured was purchased by the late Mr. Tunstal, from the cabinet 

 of a Dutch governor in the Bast Indies, with other rare species figured in this work. 

 At the period of the first publication of this work it was considered unique, and was 

 regarded as an inhabitant of the island of Amboyna, in the East Indies. Linnaeus, 

 Fabricius, Madame Merian, and Margrave, give South America as the locality of thf 

 insect described in the works of the two former authors under the name of Scarabaeus 



