Plate XXXVI. fig. 5.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Dynastidæ, _MacLeay_.
GENUS. DYNASTES, _MacLeay_. Geotrupes, _Fabr._ Scarabæus, _Linn. Drury_.
DYNASTES GIDEON. Thoracis cornu incurvo maximo apice bifido, capitis
recurvato bifido supra unidentato. (Long. Corp. cum corn. 2 unc. 4½ lin.)
SYN. Scarabæus Gideon, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. II. _p._ 541. _No._ 2.
_Swammerdam Book of Nature, t._ 30. _f._ 2. _Fabr. Syst. Eleuth._ 1. _p._
4. _No._ 3. _Olivier Ent._ 1. 3. _p._ 14. _t._ 11. _f._ 102.
Scarabæus Oromedon, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Syst. Eleuth._ 1. _p._
4. _No._ 4. (Var. præcedentis.)
HABITAT: East India.
{77}General colour dark brown, almost black. Thorax smooth and shining,
as if polished, and terminating in a strong thick horn, which inclines
forward in a curved position, and is forked at the end. From the head
also springs another strong horn, forked at the extremity, which in
length corresponds with the first; its outer side being broad and round,
but its inner side, or that opposite the other horn, is thin and sharp,
having a small swelling in the middle. Elytra smooth and shining, with a
narrow margin. Anterior tibiæ with four teeth; two being at the tip, and
two a little above them. The other tibiæ are furnished with several sharp
spines (five or six), chiefly about the tips; which, as noticed in D.
Titanus, assist the animal in its passage. Anus not hairy, as in many
other species.