INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 6. Melyris. 89 
Teftaceous, hairy; fliells ftriate pun£tured, retufe and 
toothed at the tip. 
Inhabits Muf Lejk, ^.6. ». 113. 
‘UtllOl 
^‘^Pvcinus, 
5. SYNODENDRON. ylwif^wn^clavate, the 
club lamellate : thorax gibbous, muri- 
cate or unequal : lip filiform, horny, 
palpigerous at the tip. 
Thorax truncate before, 5-toothed : head with an ere£l horn. 
Scarabaui cylindricus Gmelin, 'p, 1532. 
Oiiv. Inf. I, 3. r. g, /. 80. 
Inhabits Female unarmed. 
Thorax muricate, gibbous ; fhells 2-fpined before the tip, 
Bojlrichus bidentatus Gmelin, p. l6oz, 
Oliviers InJeS, 77, tab. 1. f. 1. 
Inhabits and i in wood. 
Bhells dull teftaceous, retufe behind, with a long black hooked 
tooth at the future, and another leffer one at the margin ; 
antenna: teftaceous. 
Shells entire, black ; thorax rough before. 
B Jlrichus capHcinus Gmelin, p. 1600. 
Inhabits Coromandel . half the fize of the laft. 
f borax with numerous raifed denticles before ; Jhells naked 
retufe at the tip. 
Smooth, black, diilky; (hells ftriate: legs pitchy. 
Inhabits S. America', fmall. 
Head black, bent under the thorax: prominent before: 
Jbells entire ftriate. 
6. MELYRIS. entirely perfoliate : 
head inflecled under the thorax: thorax 
margined: clavate, emarginateijfltd 
i-toothed, pointed. 
Green; (hells with 3 raifed lines. 
Inaabits the Cape. Oliv. Inf. 2. 21. tab. i, fig. i. 
Antennes black ; thorax reflefted at the edge, and grooved on the 
'ts'e.tde.'. fcutel fmall round; fhells rough. 
Black ; (hells with 3 raifed linep. 
In the Mufeum of Sir Jof. Banks. 
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