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PLATE CCLV. 



F I G I. 



SCARABiEUS NUTANS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennas terminate in a kind of club ; which is longitudinally 

 iiivided into lamina, two, three, or feven in number. Second joint 

 of the anterior, orforemoft legs, armed with fpines. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO Nl'MS. 



Black ; without fcutellum ; anterior part of the thorax imprefled 

 or hollow. Back of the head terminates in an ere£l fpine, bent at 



the apex. 



ScARAByEus Nutans : exfcutellatus thorace antice impreffo, occi- 

 pite fpina ere^la apice nutante, corpore nigro. Fal/, 

 Ent. Syji. T. I. p. 59. 194. 



Scarabaeus nutans. Oliv. Inf. i. 3. 145. 176. tab. 2.1. fig. 188. 



A local fpecies. It is feldom found in this country. Fabricius 

 notes it as a Saxon Infecl, 



FIG. 



