PLATE CCCCXVIL 67 



FIG. III. III. 

 SCARAILEUS FOSSOR. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Black : thorax fomewhat retufe : head with three tubercles and 

 fomewhat cornuted in the middle. 



Scarab;eus Fossor: niger, thorace fubretufo, capite tuberculis 

 tribus : medio fubcornuto. Lirm. Syjl. Nat. 

 548. 31.— Fn. Suec. 384.— Fabr. Sp. Inf. I. 

 p. 15. n. 59. — Mant. Inf. I. p. 8. n. 62. — 

 Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. \Q. n. 24. 



La Tete Armee : Geoffr. Inf. I. p. 82. n. 20. 

 Schaef. Icon. t. 144. /. 78. 



The length of this infect rather exceeds three-eights of an inch : 

 the colour is entirely black, glabrous, fmooth, and mining ; its thorax 

 is very convex : wing-cafes oblong and ftriated : antenna? lamellated; 

 and wings fufcous. Found in dung. 



K2 FIG. 



