514 ANALYSIS. 



von Saisan in Tartaria magna misit D. Gebler ; e Cherso- 

 neso Taurico D. Steven. 



The nomenclature of this species is a singular instance 

 of the habitual carelessness of Fabricius. In the Species 

 Insectorum he described a Cape insect thorace l<svi, under 

 the name of S .flagellatus. In the Mantissa, he gives the same 

 name to an insect of the South of Europe, thorace elytr'isque 

 scabris. In the Sy sterna Entomologies he confounds them 

 both, having evidently forgotten the original flagellatus so 

 much, as not to know it on its reappearance, since we find 

 it in the appendix to the last-mentioned work, described as 

 S. scabratus. And thus they stand in the Syst. Eleut he- 

 rat orum, where the first habitat of flagellatus ought con- 

 sequently to be expunged. Sphonnher first perceived this 

 blunder, but has himself erred in taking any synonym for 

 scabratus from the Mantissa. 



humanus. 31. SCARABiEUS atro-olivaceus holosericeus laevissimus haud 



punctatus, clypeo bilineato : medio laevi, elytris sub lente 



forti substriatis. 

 Gymnopleurus humanus. Leach MSS. 

 Habitat ad Cap. Bon. Spei. D. Burchell. Mas. Brit. 

 * * * Clypeus apice bidentatus, lateribus undatis. Corpus metalli- 



cum, serieeum vet nitidum. Elytra striata wel substr lata. In- 



secta Africana. 



Leei, 32. SCARABiEUS rubro-cupreus holosericeus, subtus atroviridis, 



clypeo thoraceque linea longitudinali nitida dimidiatis, 

 elytris subgranulatis, tibiis posticis zeneis. 



S. Leei. Fab. Ent. Syst. 1. 65. 215. 



Habitat ad Cap. Bona; Spei. D. Burchell. Mus. Brit. 



The reader will perceive that this species differs from 

 the Ateuchus Leei of Fabricius, in the under side being of 

 a dark-green instead of black, and its habitat being the 



