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PLATE, CCCLXX VIAL. 
SCARABAKUS RURICOLA. 
RUFOUS DARK-BORDERED SCARABZUS. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz clavated, the club fiffile : fhanks of the anterior legs gene- 
rally dentated. 
* Seétion Melolontha, mandible one and fomewhat dentated: 
wing-cafes fhorter than the body: naked Re) of the abdomen 
obliquely truncated. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS 
Deep black, filky: wing-cafes rufous, marginal border, and future 
black. 
Scaranevs Ruricoxa: ater fericeus, elytris rufis: margine futu- 
raque nigris. Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 39. 
fp. 6 
MELOLONTHA RURICOLA: ater fericeus elytris rufis : margine ni- 
gro. Fabr. Sp. Inf. I. p. 73. n. 45.—Mant. Inf. I. 
p. 25. n. 58.—Ent. Syjt. I. 173. Sp. 75. 
Scarapmus Ruricoxa: ater fericeus, elytris rufis; margine nt 
gro. Gmel. Linn. Syft. Nat. 1558. fp. 235. 
Scarabaus 
