PLATE CCCXC. 85 



FIG. II. 



SCARAB^EUS FRISCH1L 



FRTSCH'S BEETLE. 

 * Seclion Melolontha. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Braffy blacky gloffy : wing-cafes teftaceous. 



Melolontha Frischii: nigro asnea nitida elytris teilaceis. Fabr. 

 Syft. Ent. 37. 25.— Sp. Inf. I. 41. 33.— Mani. L 

 21. 40.— Ent. Syft. I. p. 2. 167. 53. 



ScARABiEUS Frischii: asheusj elytris teilaceis: futura virefcenti. 

 Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 40. fp. 71. 



ScARABiEUs Frischii. Doncv. Tour of South Wales, Vol. I. 

 p. oil. 



^TJlr J '-'^STvJT."3T-^'g5g-:?f T- SKia 



The only fpecimen of Scarab^eus Frifchii that we have yet feen alive, 

 was obferved crawling upon a meagre blade of the common mat-weed 

 Arundo arenaria, that? had fecured itfelf a local habitation upon a 

 fand-hill on the fea-coaft, about a mile to the weftward of Newton 

 Bay, Glamorganfhire. The whole body, except the wing-cafes (which 

 are teftaceous) the lateral edges of the thorax, legs, eyes, and antei-na^ 

 were of a fine braffy purple. In fome fpecimens, the head, thorax, 

 fcutel, and tail, are of a coppery green inftead of purple. 



Mift 



