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TAB. XXXV. 



Eig. 1.— SCARAB.^:US spiniger. 



Spec. Char. Black. Thorax with an impressed 



spot on each side, hind thighs bidentated, 

 Syn. Sc. spiniger. Marsham^s Coleopt. 21. 



Stalk of the antennae pitch-coloured. Capitulum blackish. 

 Thorax obscure, excavato-punctated on each side, with a 

 larger impressed spot; hind part of the thorax with an in- 

 termediate line, about halfway composed of excavated spots. 

 Scutellum longitudinally subdepressed in the middle. 

 Elytra obscure, striated, striae subpunctated. Hind thighs 

 armed with two teeth, of which the exterior is largest, and 

 the interior is a continuation of the appendage at the base 

 of the thigh. Fore thighs, which is very singular in this 

 genus, are three-sided and seven-toothed, third tooth upright. 

 — Mar sham. 



Fig. 2. — S. foveatus. Marsh, Coleopt. 21. 



Spec. Char. Black. Elytra sulcated. Thorax with 

 two excavated spots on each side. Scutellum 

 violaceous. 



Very like the preceding; but the thorax has four excavated 

 spots : the disc slightly and the sides strongly punctulated. 

 Scutellum violaceous. Margin of thorax and elytra atro- 

 coerulescent. Hind thighs furnished with 1 or 2 teeth. 

 Fore feet scxdentate. Tarsi pitch-coloured. — Marsham. 



Our figure is from a specimen in the cabinet of A. Mac 

 Leay, Esq. 



