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SCARABAUS FRISCHIL. 
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FRISCH’S BEETLE. 
* Seélion Melolontha. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Braffy black, glofly : wing-cafes teftaceous. 
MEeLoLontTua Friscuit: nigro enea nitida elytris teftaceis. Fudr. 
Syfi. Ent. 37. 25.—Sp. Inf. I. 41. 35.— Mane. I. 
21. 40.—Ent. Syft. I. p. 2. 167. 53. 
SCARABEUS FRISCHIL: aneus, elytris teftaceis: futurd virefcenti. 
i Mar. Eni. Bret. TT. pA0. fov7 te 
Scarapmus Friscuit. Donov. Tour of South Wales, Vol. 1. 
The only fpecimen of Scarabeus Frifchi that we have yet feen alive, 
was obferved crawling upon a meagre blade of the common mat-weed 
Avundo arenaria, that had fecured itfelf a local habitation upon a 
fand-hill on the fea-coaft, about a mile to the weftward of Newton 
Bay, Glamorganfhire. The whole body, except the wing-cafes (which 
are teftaceous) the lateral edges of the thorax, legs, eyes, and antennae, 
were of a fine braffy purple. In fome fpecimens, the head, therax, 
feutel, and tail, are of a coppery green inftead of purple. nae 
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