66 PLATE CCCCXVII. 



margin of the wing-cafes is another : near the future, and before the 

 middle of the wing-cafes, is a fourth fpot ; and a fifth towards the end, 

 placed tranfverfely. — Varieties occur in which the thorax is reddifli 

 at the fides. 



FIG. II. 

 SCARAB^US SPHACELATUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black : head tuberculated : margin of the thorax pale : wing-cafes 

 grifeous with dotted ftriaa, and a fingle fufcous daub or irregular 

 fpot, 



ScarabjEUS Sphacelatus: niger, capite tuberculato, margine 

 thoracis pallido, elytris grifeis pun6lato-ftriatis : 

 litura unica fufca. Mdrjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 15, 

 n. 20. 

 Panz. Faun. Germ. 58. t. 5. 



Very abundant in dung. Size the fame as in the preceding fpecies. 

 The antennae of this infect is black: head obfolete, tuberculated, 

 and black : thorax black, gloffy, and very minutely punctured, with 

 the lateral margin livid : fcutel fufcous : body black beneath : legs 

 pale. 



FIG. 



