. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. PHYLLOGNATHUS. 307 palpus. Labium elongate, narrow and pointed in front. Pro- sternal process free, prominent and rather pointed. Propygidium Mdthout stridulatory ridges. d" • Shorter and more globose than the female. Head armed with a short, flattened and recurved horn, and pronotum excavated in the middle. Only one Indian species has been described. 282. Phyllognathus dionysius. Scarabfeiis dionysius, i^., Ent. St/st. i, 1792, p. 20. Geotrupes dionysius, F., Si/st. Eleut. i, 1801, p. 17. Oryctes haworthii, ITope, Gray's Zool. Miscellany, 1831,
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. PHYLLOGNATHUS. 307 palpus. Labium elongate, narrow and pointed in front. Pro- sternal process free, prominent and rather pointed. Propygidium Mdthout stridulatory ridges. d" • Shorter and more globose than the female. Head armed with a short, flattened and recurved horn, and pronotum excavated in the middle. Only one Indian species has been described. 282. Phyllognathus dionysius. Scarabfeiis dionysius, i^., Ent. St/st. i, 1792, p. 20. Geotrupes dionysius, F., Si/st. Eleut. i, 1801, p. 17. Oryctes haworthii, ITope, Gray's Zool. Miscellany, 1831, p. 22. Oryctes dionysius, Burm., Handb. Ent. v, 1847, p. 188. Xylotrupes reductus. Walker, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, p. 54. Chestnut-red, shining above and clothed with tawny hairs beneath. It is a compact globose insect. The liead is densely punctured and the clypeus bluntly pointed. The prothorax is transverse, strongly rounded at the sides, with the front angles obtuse, the hind angles little marked, and the base feebly prominent in the middle. The scuteUum is broad, and rugose except at the extreme margins, and the elytra are rather indefinitely punctate-striate, with coarse irregular punctures in the Fig. 73. -Fhyllognatlius dionysius, male, and outlines of anterior part of male (a) and female {h). (S. The cephalic horn is broad, smooth beyond the base, strongly reclined, and in well developed specimens dilated at the end and obtusely triangular at the exti-emity. The prothorax is deeply excavated from the front almost to the hind margin, and the sides of the excavation are almost straight, diverging gently to the front, slightly carinate anteriorly and produced on each side i2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Arrow, G. J. (Gilbert John), 1873-1948. London, Taylor and
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