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The annexed figures exhibit the two sexes of Scarabseus Seniculus. In somespecimens the spots are very indistinct and reddish; in others the wing-cases havefaint red striae. The female has the rudiments of horns on the thorax.
COPBIS BUCEPHALUS.
Plate 2. fig. 3.
Genus. Copris, Geoffroy. Scarabseus p. Linn. dec.
Ch. Sp. C. thorace retuso quadridentato, capitis clypeo angulato, cornu $ brevi erecto baudemarginato, $ breviori truncato subemarginato. Long. Corp. unc. 1, lin. 8..
C. with the thorax retuse in front and 4-toothed, clypeus angulated, the male ■witha short erect horn not notched at the tip, the female with a much shorter andtruncated horn. Length If inch.
Syn. Scarabseus Bucephalus, Fabricius Ent. Syst. 1. p. 51. 166. Herbst. Col. II. p. 17Lt. 13./ 1. 2. Oliv. I. 3. 99. t. Lf 26. t. 10./. 92. t. 22./ 92. $
This species has been confounded with C. Molossus. Both species are here re-presented on the same plate, in order that the difference between them may beprecisely observed.
CETONIA (TETRAGONA) CHINENSIS.
Plate 3. fig. 1. and l a .
Family. CetoniidyE.
Genus. Cetonia, Fabricius. Scarabseus p. Linnceus , Donovan.
Sub-Gen. Tetragona, Gory.
Ch. Sp. C. viridi-senea, clypeo emarginato, thorace postice lobato, elytris acuminatis, cor-pore subtus pedibusque subspinosis, castaneis, tarsis nigris. Long. Corp. unc. 1,lin. 6.
C. brassy-green, clypeus notched and slightly spined, thorax lobed behind, elytraacuminated, body beneath, with the legs, chestnut-coloured, tarsi black. Length1J inch.
Syn. Scarabseus Chinensis, Forster Cent. Ins. I. p. 2. 2.
Cetonia Chinensis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. I. II. p. 126. b. Oliv. Ent. I. 6. p. 11. t. 2./. 5. a.b. Herbst. Col. III. p. 199. 2. t. 28./ 2.
Scarabseus oblongus, Brown lllustr. t. 49./. 4.
Smaragdinus major, Voet. Col. t. 5./. 40.