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that this line of locality cannot depend either on its food or 

 on the soil. On what circumstances it really does depend, 

 is a question perhaps difficult to decide, but which I would 

 here propose as well deserving the attention of Entomo- 

 logists. 



A review of the preceding analysis will enable the reader 

 to construct a Table of the affinities of the genus Scarabceus. 

 He must not, however, imagine himself in a state to form 

 any correct notion of the comparative distance of the spe- 

 cies from each other, until many more species than are 

 here described shall be known. It is sufficient if he be 

 aware that a table, however rude, will always have the ad- 

 vantage of expressing affinities more clearly than a linear 

 series. With such a table I shall conclude this attempt 

 to discover the rank and situation which Scarabaus sacer 

 holds among organized beings ; certain that, whatever er- 

 rors may be detected in it, they have not arisen from any 

 want of anxiety to ascertain the truth. 



