84 PLATE CCCXC. 
MELoLoNnTHA AGRICOLA: thorace villofo, elytris lividis: limbo 
fafciaque nigris, clypeo apice reflexo. Fabr. Syft. 
Ent. 37. 99.—Sp. Inf. I. 43. 44.—Mant. I. 93. 
57.—Ent. Syfi. I. 173. 74. 
ScaRAB£uS AGRICOLA. Donov. Tour of South Males. A. D. 
1801—1804. Vol. 2. p. 239. 
Le Cyathiger. Scop. 6. 
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‘bout the latter end of the month of July, 1801, we were fo for- 
tunate as to capture a livmg fpecimen of Scarabeus Agricola, on 
the fea coait of the county of Caermarthen, South Wales, thereby 
afcertaining, beyond a doubt, the exiftence of this lovely infect in 
our own ifland. As an European fpecies, it was well known be- 
fore the time of Linnzus, and has been fince mentioned by vari- 
ous continental authors, but no writer has hitherto fpoken of it as 
a native of this country, with the exception of Mr. Marfham, who, 
on our authority, inferted this fpecies in his recent publication, Ln- 
domologia Britannica. The dilcovery of this infeét we may-con- 
fider, therefore, of fome moment to the Entomologift, if not a va- 
luable acceffion to the Britithh Fauna. 
The beauty of this infeét, when alive, was eminently firiking : the 
thorax did not appear of that obfcure dutky hue obfervable in dead 
fpecimens: both that part of the thorax, and the head, were of a rich 
brafiy-green colour, aud fiightly villous; and the dark margm, with 
the band acrois the wing-cafes, though eae were elegantly glofled 
with purple. 
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