PLAT Ey CCCCXVIE 
ELG THE! ft. 
SCARABEUS FOSSOR. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
. AND 
SYNONYMS. 
67 
Black: thorax fomewhat retufe: head with three tubercles and 
fomewhat cornuted in the middle. 
ScaRaBzus Fossor: niger, thorace fubretufo, capite tuberculis 
tribus: medio fubcornuto. Linn. Syjt. Nat. 
548. 31.—In. Suec. 884.—Fabr. Sp. Inf. IL. 
p. 15. n.59.—Mant. Inf. I. p. 8. 2. 62.— 
Mahe Ent br. LI. 7. V0.1. 24. 
La Tete Armée: Geoffr. Inf. I. p. 82. n. 20. 
Schaef. Icon. t. 144. f. 78. 
The length of this infect rather exceeds three-eights of an inch: 
the colour is entirely black, glabrous, fmooth, and fhining ; its thorax 
is very convex: wing-cafes oblong and ftriated: antennz lamellated; 
and wings fufcous. 
Found in dung. 
FIG. 
