INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. i. Scarabsus. 



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*Auratus. Gilt ; firft fegment of the abdomen i -toothed at ths fides : 

 ( (hells with tranfverfe white lines. 

 Inhabits Europe. Oli<v. Inf. I, 6. tab. I. fig. I. 

 When touched emits a fetid moifturc from the tail. 



jEruginofus Gilt ; above green. 



Gron.Muf 424. tab. l$,fig. 7. 

 Inhabits Calabria, on the lentifcus. 



Tajluofus. Brafly, finely polifhed, immaculate. 



Inhabits Europe. Scopol. De/ic. 1 . tab. 2 1 . fig. A. 



Legs green : fhells with a fmall imprefled dot at the bafe. 



Marmora. Brafly, thorax & (hells with numerous white fcattered fpecks 

 Inhabits Germany. Voet Coleopt. tab. i.fig. 3. 

 Shield thickned at the tip : body beneath braify, with a line of 

 white dots each fide. 



.Vindis. Green, opake, beneath more polifhed : (hells fpotted with 

 white. 

 Inhabits Italy. Herbfi Archiv, tab. 29, fig. 7. 

 Shells with white lateral fpots, and 1 dorfal one near the tip : 

 tail a little prominent, with white dots. 



MetaJiHus. B ra {f Vj opake, immaculate; beneath coppery. 

 Inhabits 7/tf/y. Cetonia Metallica. Fabricius. 

 Shield thickened at the edge. 



Pubefa 



Opacus. 



Morio. 



Erythrotm* 



Cordatus, 



Dull-b ratty ; edge of the thorax and fegments and 2 fpots 

 on the tail, white. 

 Inhabits the Cape. Oliv. Inf. I, 6. tab. 11, fig. 100. 

 Front cinereous, downy : thighs above with a large white fpot. 



Green, opake ; (hield reflected. 

 Inhabits Jfrica, on compofite flowers. 



Entirely black, opake ; beneath more polifhed. 

 Inhabits Europe. Oliv. Inf. 1, 6. tab. 2, fig. 3. 



Black ; (hield projecting, finnate at the bafe each fide : 

 border of the thorax and edge of the (hells cinereous. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



Between the antenna are often 2 cinereous dots : antenna of 3 



long leaves : laft fegment of the abdomen prominent, with 2 



cinereous dots. 



Black, polifhed : (hield heart-fhaped. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



Antenna % fhort leaves : thorax immaculate : Jhells hardly ftriate, 

 black : fore/hanks very much toothed. 



Albopunc- Black ; thorax with 4 white fpots. 



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Inhabits 



