Plate XXX. fig. 5.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Dynastidæ, _MacLeay_.
GENUS. DYNASTES, _MacLeay_. Geotrupes, _Fabr._ Scarabæus P. _Linn._
Scarabæus, _Latreille_.
DYNASTES ÆGEON. Rufus, thoracis cornu brevi incurvo subtus barbato,
capitis recurvo subulato. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Scarabæus Ægeon, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Ent. Syst. p._ 4.
_No._ 4. _Syst. Eleuth._ 1. _p._ 5. _No._ 8. (Geotrupes Æg.) _Oliv. Ent._
1. 3. _p._ 26. _No._ 26. _t._ 1. _f._ 4. _Jabl. Nat. Syst._ 1. _p._ 228.
_No._ 6. _t._ 1. _f._ 4. _Sch. Syn. Ins._ 1. _p._ 4. _No._ 13.
HABITAT: "In Indiis" (_Fabricius_). Peruvia (_Dejean._).
Head small and black, from whence springs a horn that bends towards the
body. Eyes red brown. Thorax red brown, with a black margin; having a
short thick horn issuing from it, that inclines towards the head: it has
also a faint black spot on each side. Scutellum black and triangular.
Elytra red brown; the margins and suture being black. Abdomen black,
covered with olive brown hairs. Legs black. Hinder and fore tibiæ with
three short spines, placed on the external part of each; and with two
spurs, those of the middle ones being shortest. Ungues having a single
hair issuing from between the hooks, forked at the end.