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INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. i.Scarabaus. 



Semipunc* 

 taws. 



$-lineatust 



Inhabits Guinea : middle fized. 



Shield 3-toothcd, the middle one fmall : headbhcY, polifhed, 

 with 2 white dots : middle line on the thorax abbreviated : 

 fcutel black, with a white line : Jhells flightly punctured, the 

 future black: fides fpotted with white: thighs marked with a 

 white line. 



Green, polifhed: thorax 4-Hned : fhells with 2 white lines 

 at the bafe and fpotted with white at the tips. 

 Shield flightly emarginate with 2 fhort white lines : thorax with 

 2 white Lnes each fice : fcutel immaculate : body covered with 

 white down beneath, a fmooth brafly white line running down 

 the middle. 



Black; thorax 5 -lined : fhells fpotted with white: fhield 

 reflected, with an incumbent fpine in the middle. 

 Oli<v. inf. 1. tab. 8. jg. 76. 



Scutel tiianguhr, with a fmall white line: Jk ells brown fpotted 

 with white, the future and 2 railed line? red : abdomen black 

 with 2 lines of white dots each fide : tail prominent, brown 

 with 2 white lpots. 



Dark brown, polifhed : fhells with black filky fpots and a 

 white one behind. 



Inhabits Iranquehar : middle fized. 



Shield reflected, flightly emarginate : Jhells flriate : abdomen with 

 lateral white dots. 



Limbatus* Black : thorax ed-ed with ferruginous. 



Inhabits / gypt : dull black. 



Shells with a imall purpliih line at the future. 



Splendidus. Blue : edge of the thorax and fhells teftaceous. 

 Inhabits India. GUv. 1 , 6. tab 4, fg. 2 1 . 

 Body fmooth mining : fcutel nearly half as long as the fhells. 



Atromacu- 



lam. 



Elegant, 



future of the fhells and dot at the 



Green, highly polifhed 

 tip white. 



Inhabits Coromandel. Oliv. Inf. 1, 6. tab. 4. fg. 25. 



Shield flightly reflected, with a fmall recumtent lpine : firft feg-_ 

 ment of the abdomen with a teftaceous edge : fernum promi- 

 nent, flightly recurved, obtufe. 



jEthiopicut Green with a tawny hue: fhells with 2 black fpots: 

 flernum obtufe. 

 Inhabits Africa. Oli<v. Inf. 1, 6. tab. 8. fig. 73. 

 Shield obtufe, flightly emarginate, tawny : tail dufky : thighs 

 with a tawney line each fide. 



Venereus. Coppery, polifhed : thorax, fcutel and fhells, green. 

 Inhabits Surinam and Jamaica* 



I 2 Shield 



