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C A R A B , ^ U S A T L A S .
G EN E R IC CHARACTER.
Antennae clavatedj club divided into plates. Palpi four. Jaws horny, fomewliat tootblefs. Shanks of
the anterior legs generally dentated.
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
Thorax three horned, the fore one very ih o rt; on the head a fingle afcending horn.
ScARAB.ffius A t l a s : th o r a c e t r i c o r n i : a n t e r io r e b r e v if f i.m o ; c a p it i s c o r n u a d f c e n d e n t e . L inn. Syst.
N a t.~M u s . L ud. Ulr. 6.
We are in poiTeifion o f a fine fpecimen o f this gigantic infe£t, the only one perhaps o f the kind at
prefent in this country. It was purchafed by the late Mr Tunftal from the cabinet o f a Dutch governor
in the Eafl, Indies, with various other uncommon infedls that appear in the courfe of the prefent work.
There is every reafon to believe that it inhabits the iiland o f Amboyna; or at leaft that our fpecimen was
met with in that fpot.
Scarab2Eus Atlas is one o f the Linnajan fpecies, being defcribed by that great naturalifl: from an infeft
in the mufeum of the Queen of Sweden. The fame is likewife figured and defcribed by other continental
writers, among whom we may mention Merian, Swammerdam, and Voet. Edwards likewife. In his
Hiftory o f Birds, P). 105, gives a figure of this and another large kind o f Scarabxus • , both o f which he
tells us had been brought from Borneo, in the Eail Indies, a circuinflance that ought to be obfcrved,
fince other writers fpeak o f this infeft as a native o f South America.
S C A R A B iE US S P I N I F E X .
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
Without fciitel, thorax roundifli, unarmed : a recurved fpine on the back of the head,
ScARABwBus S p i n i f e x : e x f c u t e l l a t u s , th o r a c e r o tu n d a t o in e rm i , o c c ip i t e f p in a r e c u r v a . Fab. Spec.
Inf. I. p. 29. Sp. 13].
Inhabits the coaft o f Coromandel according to Fabricius, who refers to the colle£tion of Sir J . Banks
Bart, for this infe£t. The fame fpecies has alfo been received by us from Bengal.
* Scarabaus Bilobus. Edwards erroneouily imagined this to be the female, and S. Atlas the male of the fame fpecies.