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Scarabaeus niger, elytris croceis margine nigro. — Le Scarabe a boj- 

 dure. Geoffr. 3V I. p. 80. fp. 15. 



Scarabaeus marginatus. Fourc. I. 9- 15>. 



Melolontha, Floricola. Laick. I. 41. 6. 



Scarabseus Ruricola does not appear in either of the Entomologi- 

 cal works of Linnaeus. Fourcroy defcribes it as a Parifian infect* ; 

 Fabricins as a native of England + ; KovTius as an Italian fpeciest ; 

 and we have a fpecimen of it from Germany ; of which laft country, 

 Panzer gives it as an inhabitant in his Entomologia Germanica. We 

 are thus explicit, in order to mew that it is a general European in- 

 fect, and not exclufively a native of this country, as might be inferred 

 from the concluding obfervation of the Fabrician defcription of 

 this fpecies. " Habitat in Angliae graminolis Dom Lee." 



We mult acknowledge that, in the courfe of our own collecting, we 

 have never taken this infect, or feen it alive. Our figures are co- 

 pied from an Engliih fpecimen, in the cabinet of that indefatigable 

 collector, the late Mr. Green, of Weftminiler, whofe cabinet has 

 recently fallen into our poffeffion, and where he met with it we cannot 

 afcertain. Mr. Mariham informs us ( Ent. Brit.) that this infect 

 was taken in great abundance in the month of July, !7P7, on New- 

 market Heath, near the Fofs, vulgarly called the Devil's Dyke. 



There are two, if not more varieties of this infect, one of which 

 has the diik of the wing-cafes teftaceous inltead of rufous ; Geof- 



Entologomia Parijienft-S. 

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