_Male._ Head black, with a horn terminating in a point, and bending backwards. Eyes red brown. Thorax brown, almost black, margined and prominent, terminating upwards in three pointed tubercles. Scutellum black, and nearly triangular. Elytra red brown, smooth, shining, slightly margined. The abdomen, legs, and all the under parts of a red brown, and hairy. Tibiæ spined. _Female._ Resembles the male in every thing but the head and thorax; having on the former, instead of the horn, a small tubercle, and on the latter a small impression in the place of the pointed knobs. This insect has been introduced into the list of British species on the authority of the late Mr. Haworth, who recorded the fact of a living specimen having been taken by a bricklayer amongst old timber, on pulling down the roof of a building at Chelsea, (Entom. Trans, vol. i. p. 76.) Mr. Stephens, however, (loc. supra citat.) thinks it very doubtful whether the species be really indigenous, as it appears highly probable that the specimen above alluded to, may have been imported amongst some of the Continental plants which abound in the above vicinity, the insect occurring very copiously in rotten bark, the refuse of conservatories, and putrid wood in various parts of the Continent. PLATE XXXV. [Illustration] ONITIS SULCATUS. Plate XXXV. fig. 1. ORDER. Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Scarabæidæ. GENUS. ONITIS, _Fabr._ Scarabæus, _Linn._ ONITIS SULCATUS. Ater, capitis tuberculo unico, elytris striatis, thorace anticè lineà irregulari dorsali impresso. (Long. Corp. 1 unc.) SYN. Scarabæus Sulcatus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. Onitis Nicanor, _Fabr. Syst. Eleuth._ 1. _p._ 29. _Tabl. Col._ 2. _t._ 15. _f._ 8. HABITAT: Jamaica. Head broad and thin, hairy underneath; terminating in a short straight horn, inclining backwards, with a small tubercle on each side. Eyes almost surrounded by the thin sides of the head, being placed so as to see both above and below it. Thorax margined, with several protuberances on its front; and on the top with a strong indented line running from the front to the suture of the elytra, where likewise {72}its margin is interrupted by two smaller impressions, forming an appearance like a square escutcheon. Elytra as long as the thorax, margined, and deeply furrowed, scarcely reaching to the anus. General colour above black or raven grey, but not shining. Thighs very strong, black, and broad. Anterior tibiæ strong, with three teeth and a spine. Tarsi and ungues very small. Middle and hinder tibiæ small at the base, but broad and thick with strong spines at the tips. Scutellum obsolete. COPRIS CAROLINA. Plate XXXV. fig. 2. ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Scarabæidæ. GENUS. COPRIS, _Geoffroy_. Scarabæus, _Linn._ COPRIS CAROLINA. Thorace retuso binodi, capitis cornu erecto brevissimo, clypeo integro, elytris sulcatis. (Long. Corp. circ. 1 unc.)