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broadeft at the fides, and a iingle lateral dot of black : wing cafes 

 fordid teftaceous, and marked in general with two black dots each, 

 but which in fome fpecimens are fcarcely vifible. 



FIG. III. 



SCARAB^US SORDIDUS. Far. 



Among other varieties of Scarabaeus sordidus, we fometimes 

 obferve it without any of thofe black fpots, which appear fo con- 

 fpicuous on the wing-cafes of the infect delineated at No. 2. An 

 enlarged figure of this immaculate variety is represented at fig. 3. 



F I G. IV. 

 SCARABiEUS COPRINUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Deep black, wing-cafes teflaceous with dotted ftriae, and black 

 future. 



ScAKABiEUs Coprinus : ater, elytris pun&ato-ftriatis teflaceis: 

 futura nigra. Marjh. Ent. Syji. T. 1. p. 1 2. n f 1 1. 

 Scaeabjeus SoRDEns. Gmel. 1546. 413? 



Found in dung. This is a fcarce fpecies,, and has not been noticed 

 by Fabricius. 



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