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PLATE CLIV. 



F I G. I, II, III. 



SCARAB^US NOBILIS. 



Scarce Green Chaffer, 

 coleoptera; 



"Wings two, covered by two fhells, divided by a longitudinal 

 future. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Antennae clavated, extremities fiflile *. Five joints rn each foot. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Shining green ; fiiells, full of wrinkles. Thorax not projefling. 



Scarab^us NOBILIS : fcutcllatus muticus auratus, abdomine poftice 



albo punflato. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 558. 81. — 



Fn. Sv. 401. 

 Cetonta nohills : aurata, abdomine poftice albo pundlato, elytris rugofis. 



Fabr. SyJi. Ent. 43. 5. — Spec. Inf. i. 6. p. 51. 

 Scarahceus viridis nitens, thorace, infra sequali, non prominente. 



Geoff. Inf. I. 73. 6. 

 Scarahceus auratus fecundus. Roef. Inf. 2. Scarab, i. tab. 3. fig. I, 



2> 3, 4. 5- 

 Scarab<xus viridulus fcutellatus aureo viridis nitidus, elytris rugofis 

 abdomine poftice albedine maculato, pectore 

 mutico. Degee'r. Irf. 4. 297. 26. 



* Divided into lamlnaS;, or parts, 



E This 



