Archive image from page 536 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 COLEOPTERA. 525 I-is- 70.—Sc abxus hercules. differ from the females in being armed with peculiar horns or tubercles either ou the head or thorax ; the labriim is generally entirely concealed ; in some species the maxillae are terminated by a simple coria- ceous or crustaceous lobe, without teeth ; in others they are scaly, pointed, and armed with a few teeth ; the sternum is not prominent ; the tarsal ungues are generally equa
Archive image from page 536 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 COLEOPTERA. 525 I-is- 70.—Sc abxus hercules. differ from the females in being armed with peculiar horns or tubercles either ou the head or thorax ; the labriim is generally entirely concealed ; in some species the maxillae are terminated by a simple coria- ceous or crustaceous lobe, without teeth ; in others they are scaly, pointed, and armed with a few teeth ; the sternum is not prominent ; the tarsal ungues are generally equal, the colours generally black or brown. On/ctes, lUig. (having the legs scarcely differing in length, with the four hind tibiae thick and toothed, [a vei-y numerous genus]—type, Scar, nasicornis, Linn., a reputed British species, IJ inch long, the male having a curved horn on the head,) and AgacepJiala, Mann, (having the fore-legs in the male considerably elongated, and the four posterior tibia; slender, and comprising a few Brazilian insects), differ from the following in having the niaxills terminated by a coriaceous lobe without teeth. The others have them horny, and more or less toothed. ScayabiBiis proper (Geotrnpes, Fabr.), has the body very thick, and the outside of the mandibles sinuated or toothed. The equatorial countries of both hemispheres produce some very remarkable species. [iMr. Mac Leay, considering that the name Scarabœus ought to be retained for the sacred Scarabsei, or the Ateuchi of this work, and that the name Geotnipes ought to be given to the species which strictly merit that name, from their habits of burrowins: into the ground, has proposed the name of Dynastes for these giant beetles here described under the name of Scarabœus. Mr. Kirby has further separated some species, especially in his manuscripts presented to the Entomological Society, founded upon the structure of the mouth, and which Mr. Hope has made u.'e of in his ColeopterisVs Manual,
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