50 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. i. Scarabxus. 



Teftaceus. Smooth, teftaceous ; head more dufky : fhells ftriate. 

 Inhabits America* Olivier's Infects, 1, 5. tab. 5. fig. 49. 

 Lip emarginate : thighs with a black fpot. 



Hirticollis. Hairyy black : fhells punctured, fmooth, rufous. 



Inhabits Africa. 

 'Shield rounded, reflected, black shells fmooth. 



Pallidus. Smooth, teftaceous : head and future of the (hells black. 

 Inhabits the Cape. Olivier's Infects, 1, 5. tab. 9*fig- 103. 

 Head rounded, black ; mouth paler : jliells fubftriate : legs pale, 

 black at the tips. 



Ruficollis. Smooth, puntlured, ferruginous : fhells teftaceous. 



Inhabits Coromandel. Olivier's Infects, 1, 5. tab. 9. fig. 111. 

 Shield rounded, entire, with 2 raifed lines acrofs the middle : 

 thorax very much punctured : fhells fmooth, pun&ured* 



Pujlulofus. Downy, black : thorax and (hells variolous. 



Inhabits the Cape. Melolontha variolofa. Fabricius. 



Body above black, with imprefled cinereous dots, beneath 



downy : fhield rounded, reflected, with a raifed line acrofs 



the middle. 



Signatus. Smooth, pale : 2 lines on the thorax and 3 fpots on the 



fhells black. 

 Inhabits Jamaica. Degeer, 4. tab. 19 fig. 6. 

 Head black at the bafe : shield entire : fhells fmooth, the fpots 



2, 1 : body beneath pale ; abdomen black : fore-fhanks com- 



prefled at the tips, toothed: tarfi fpinous at the bafe and 



tips. 



Margined Smooth, braffy : fhells teftaceous, the future and outer 

 lus, margin brafly. 



In the Mufeum of Sir Jofeph Banks. 



Head and thorax punctured, polifhed : shield more dufky at 

 the margin : fcutel braffy : fhells (lightly punftured, ftriate ; 

 shanks toothed. 



Cozruloce- Smooth, black-blue : (hells teftaceous with a ferruginous 

 phalus, future. 



In the Mufeum of Sir Jofeph Banks. 

 Olivier's Infects, 1, 5. tab. 6. fig. 59. 



Shield (lightly refkaed : thorax fmc>th, black-blue, the outer 

 edge teftaceous ; fhells hardly ftriate : body dufky. 



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