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PLATE CCCLXXVIII. 



SCARABiEUS RURICOLA. 



RUFOUS DARK-BORDERED SCARAB.EUS. 



COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clavated, the club Affile : flianks of the anterior legs gene- 

 rally dentated. 



* Section Melolontha, mandible arched, and Jbmewhat dentated : 

 wing-cafes Jhorter than the body : naked extremity of the abdomen 

 obliquely truncated. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS 



Deep blacky filky : wing-cafes rufous, marginal border, and future 

 black. 



Sc arables Ruricol a : ater fericeus, elytris rufis: margine futu- 

 raque nigris. Marfli. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 3Q. 

 Jp.6. 



Meloeontha Ruricola : ater fericeus elytris rufis : margine ni- 

 gro. Tabr. Sp. Inf. I. p. 73. n. 4,5,—Mant. Inf. I. 

 p. 23. n. 58.—Ent. Syft. I. 173. Sp. 75. 



Scarab.eus Ruricola: ater fericeus, elytris rufis; margine ni- 

 gro. Gmel. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 1558. fp. 235. 



Scarabaeus 



