84 PLAT E CCCXC. 



Melolontiia agkicola : thorace villofo, elytris lividis : limbo 

 fafciaque nigris, clypeo apice reflexo. Fabr. Si/Ji. 

 Eat. 37. 29- — Sp. Inf. I. 43. <H.—Mant. I. 23. 

 57.— tint. SyjL I. 173. 74. 



ScARAB/EUS AGRICOLA. DoHOV. Tour of South Wales. A. D. 



1801— 1804. Vol. <2.p. 239. 

 Le Cyalhiger. Scop. 6. 



About the latter end of the month of July, 1801, we were fo= for- 

 tunate as to capture a living fpechnen of Scarabasus Agricola, on 

 the fea coatl of the county of Caermarfhen, South Wales, thereby 

 afcertaining, beyond a doubt, the exiftence of this lovely infecl in 

 our own iiland. As an European fpecies, it was well known be- 

 fore the time of Linnaeus, and has 'been fince mentioned by vari- 

 ous continental authors, but no writer has hitherto fpoken of it as 

 a native of this country, with the exception of Mr. Mariham, who, 

 on our authority, inferted this fpecies in his recent publication, En- 

 tomologia Jjfitannzga. The difcovery of this infect we may con- 

 fider, therefore, of fome moment to the Entomologift, if not a va- 

 luable acceilion to the Britifh Fauna. 



The beauty of this infect, when alive, was eminently ftriking : the 

 thorax did not appear of that obfcure duiky hue obfervable in dead 

 fpec.imens : both that part of the thorax, and the head, were of a rich 

 braffy-green colour, and flightly villous ; and the dark margin, with 

 the band acrdfs the wing-cafes, though black, were elegantly gloffed 

 ■•with purple. 



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