ANALYSIS. 505 



M. Disderi observes, among other circumstances, that 

 " Scarabceus noster non urget pectore globulum antrorsum 

 eum trudendo quod faciunt alii; verum longioribus pedi- 

 bus suis posterioribus globulum stringit atque retrogrado 

 non directo incessu volvit" Which admirably coincides with 

 a remark communicated to me by Mr. Kirby, to wit, that 

 the hinder tibias of Heliocanthari are of the same form as 

 the fore tibias of Onitis. 



In addition to various Egyptian sculptures of this type of 

 form, the artists of which perhaps strictly intended the imi- 

 tation of no particular species, I have seen good representa- 

 tions from Egypt of S. sacer, semipunctatus, morbillosus, 

 and laticollis. Latreille appears also to have seen an image 

 of S.puncticollis. These five species therefore, with Copris 

 Midas, which was emblematic of Isis and the moon, and is 

 well described by Pliny, may be held among the most ce- 

 lebrated insects of antiquity. Although the explanation 

 of Horapollo's mysticism, and the cause of the Ileliocan- 

 tharos being the Egyptian symbol of generation, are sub- 

 jects which more properly belong to the antiquarian, much 

 curious information may be derived from M. Latreille's 

 Memoire sur les Insectes sacres d'Egypte, which has been 

 lately read before the French Institute. 



TYPUS II. Antennse articulo tertio longiori, quarto et quinlo 

 brevibus septimo, trigono pateriformi, capituli subquadrati 

 transversi basin formante. Clypeus radiatus subtrilobus, 

 lobo medio emarginato utrinque bidentato, adeoque sexden- 

 tatus. Abdomen rotundatum subdepressum circuli seg- 

 msntum majus sistens, elytrorum margine externo post 

 humeros vix acutos nee profunde nee abrupte sinuate 

 Mediosternum breve elevatum triangulare vix porrectum. 

 Pedes villosi coxis intermediis adjunctis et tibiarum calcari- 



