30 PLAT be COCCI. 
The head of this infect is black: the thield of the head fubrotund: 
thorax punétured and black, with a large anterior teftaceous fpot on 
each fide. The colour of the wing-cafes vary from rufous brown to 
reddifh : the legs are black, except the tarfi, which are rufous. 
ip cael Cea 
SCARABEUS SORDIDUS, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Head tuberculated : thorace black: margin pale with a black dot 
on each fide: wing-cafes teftaceous. 
ScARABMUS SORDIDUS: capite tuberculato, thorace nigro : margme 
pallido: punéto nigro, elytris-teftaceis. Marjh. 
Ei SUfie haley NO mares Oe 
SCARABZHUS SORDIDUS: capite tuberculato, thorace nigro: mar- 
gine pallido, puncto nigro, elytris grifeis. Fabr. 
Spec. Inf. I. 17. 68.—Sy/t. Ent. 16. 55.—Ent. 
Syji. I. 29. 90.—Schaeff. Icon. t. 74. res 
This infect is the fame fize as the preceding, the figure in our 
plate being magnified ; and, like that fpecies, it is fuund in horfe-dung, « 
but lefs frequently. 
The antenne are pale: head pale with three tuberculations: thorax 
punctured, black, with an entire pale or reddifh border, which is 
broadeft 
