40 PET Bf COXNNI. 
FIG. IVs TV. 
DERMESTES SCARABHOIDES, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Ovate black: two red fpots on the wing-cafes. 
DERMESTES SCARABAOIDES. Linn. Sy/?. Nat. 2. 563. 17.— 
Fu. Sv. 428. 
SPHZRIDIUM SCARABZOIDES: ovatum atrum elytris maculis~ 
duabus ferrugineis. Fab. Ent. Sy/f. 1. 77.6. 1. 
aA ER 
= 
Found in dung. Fabricius feparates this fpecies from the Der. 
meftides, and places it in the new genus Spheridium, 
PLATE 
