ANALYSIS. 



wanting the elevated dorsal line, and having the elevated 

 points of the elytra irregular, so as to give the strice the 

 appearance of being waved. From S. morbilloms they 

 may easily be distinguished by their anterior tibia? being 

 more distinctly quaclridentate. 



S. intricatus and Pal&mon both come very near to 

 Gymnopleurus in marking and form, in vestige of sinuation 

 in Palamon, and of impressed points on each side of the 

 thorax of intricatus. 



puncticollis. 12. SCARABiEUS atronitidus glaberrimus, capite antice scabro 



postice li£vi convexo, thorace punctis minutis rarissimis 



antice impressis, elytris vix striatis. 



/3Var.|S. thorace punctis duobusdorsalibusviximpresso. Mus.Brit. 



Ateuchus puncticollis. Lat. Mem. sur les Ins. Sac. cTEgi/pte. 



p. 7. t. 13. rig. 14. 

 Habitat in regione Tripolitana. D. Ritchie. Mus. Brit. 



This species approaches excessively close to the Spanish 

 variety of S.pius before described. The rectangular shape 

 of the abdomen distinguishes this at first sight from S. se- 

 mipunctatus, which has it rather circular. 



Species qua, Scaraba?um Bonellii affinitate attingunt. 

 Spencii. 13. SCARABiEUS atronitidus, capitis lineis duabus curvis antror- 



sum in vertice concurrentibus, thorace tuberculis scabrius- 

 culo, elytrorum striis sub lente vittasformibus. 

 /3 Var. S. rufus. 



Habitat . Mus. Brit. 



Hac Species Monographic de Cholevis acutissimo auctori dicatur. 

 14. SCARAB7EUS atronitidus, capite postice punctata : medio tu- 

 berculato lineaque transversa elevata mucronata, thorace 

 antice tuberculis scabro, elytrorum striis inconspicuis. 



Habitat . 



In memorium Entomologorum principis. 



