54 PLATE CCCLXXVIT. 
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Scarabzus niger, elytris croceis margine nigro.—Le Scarabé a. bor 
dure: Geojr. 1. Ip. 80.4p. 13. 
Scarabeus marginatus. Fourc. I. 9. 15. 
Melolontha Floricola. Laich. I. 41. 6. 
Scarabzeus Ruricola does not appear in either of the Entomologi- 
eal works of Linneus. Fourcroy deferibes it as a Parifian infeét * : 
Fabricius as a native of England}; Roffius as an Italian {pecies t ; 
and we have a fpecimen of it from Germany; of which laft country, 
Panzer gives it as an inhabitant in his Entomologia Germanica. We 
are thus explicit, in order to thew that it is a general European in- 
feét, and not exclufively a native of this country, as might be inferred 
from the concluding obfervation of the Fabrician deicription of 
this fpecies. Habitat in Anglie graminofis Dom Lee,” 
We mutt acknowledge that, in the courfe of our own colleéting, we 
have never taken this infe&t, or feen it alive. Our figures are’ co- 
pied from an Englith fpecimen, in the cabinet of that indefatigable 
colleétor, the late Mr. Green, of Weftminiter, whofe cabinet has 
recently fallen into our poffeffion, and where he met with it we cannot 
afcertam. Mr. Marfham informs us (Ent. Brit.) that this infee 
was taken in great abundance in the mouth of July, i797, on News 
market Heath, near the Fofs, vulgarly called the Devil’s Dyke. 
There are two, if not more varieties of this infect, one of which 
has the dik of the wing-cafes teftaceous inftead of rufous; Geof 
Se 
nu Entologomia Parifienis, 
+ Ent. Syft. 
$ Fauna Vtrufee. 
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