Plate XXXIV. fig. 1. [male].--2. [female].
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Dynastidæ.
GENUS: DYNASTES, _MacLeay_. Geotrupes, _Fabricius_. Scarabæus, _Linn.
&c._
DYNASTES SATYRUS. Thorace inermi antice truncato; capitis cornu recurvo
capite longiori [male]; clypeo tuberculato, thorace plano. (Long. Corp. 1
unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Geotrupes Satyrus, _Fabr. Syst. Eleuth._ 1. 15. _No._ 49.
Scarabæus S. _Fabr. Spec. Ins._ 1. 12. _No._ 42. _Olivier Ent._ 13. _p._
39. _t._ 11. _f._ 94. a. b.
Scarabæus Jamaicensis, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Jablonsky, Nat. S._ II.
_p._ 83. _No._ 68. _t._ 9. _fig._ 8. 9. (nec Scar. Jamaicensis, _Fabr.
Oliv._)
HABITAT: New York.
_Male._ Head black, and furnished with a single horn terminating in a
point, and bending backwards, having in front two small protuberances;
hairy beneath. Thorax black, shining and margined; the upper part
elevated, and appearing almost perpendicular. Elytra margined and
furrowed; also black, as is the anus. Abdomen reddish brown, with dark
yellow hairs. Thighs brown, almost black; broad, strong, and hairy.
Anterior tibiæ deeply dentated with a strong spine at the tips, and
hairy. Middle tibiæ strong, and very spinose; particularly at the tips,
where there are two long ones on each, which are likewise very hairy.
Ungues very small. Scutellum triangular and small.
_Female._ Resembles the male in every part but the thorax and head; the
former being quite smooth and convex without any prominence, and the
latter, in the room of a horn, has a small protuberance, just discernible
by the naked eye.