c 



] 



ELYTRA, 

 THIGHS, 



LEGS, 



PLACE, 



cruciated, brown, veins of the coriaceous part, 

 red. 



firft and fécond pair of thighs, ferrated, in- 

 terior marginof the HINDMOST comprelTed 

 each with ten ftrong spines. 



dilated \inequally, their whole length to a 

 confiderable breadth, with one tooth or 

 SPINE on the exterior margin ; all the feet 

 three tarfes and fniall crotchets. 



Surinam. 



F I G. 



IV. 



SCARAByEUS SCUTELLATUS MUTICUS, L. S. N. 



Oblongus Sc. laevi-s, aeneo-rufus, capite, thorace, elitrifque viridibus. 

 BODY, oblong. 



THORAX, ELYTRA, green, fliining, fmooth. 

 THIGHS, LEGS, dark red, poliflied, clouded 



with tints of brown, 

 corners of the upper lip pointed, 

 third angle of the thorax extended confide- 

 rably below the elytra, partly covering 



THE escutcheon. 



not quite fo long as the abdomen, rounded 

 at their extremity, the interior margin de- 

 preffed from the bafe to the middle, from 

 whence to the end elevated, the points pro- 

 jecting a little. 

 place, Africa. 



head, 

 abdomen, 



lips, 

 thorax. 



elytra, 



