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TAB. LVIL 
SCARABiEUS pumilus. 
Class 5. Insecta. Order 1 . Coleoptera. 
Spec. Char. Black. Thorax of the male armed 
with three horns: the intermediate one very short ; 
the lateral ones protended shorter than the head ; 
sides of the thorax rugose. 
Syn. Scarabasus pumilus. Marsh. Ent. Brit. 1.8. 
n. 2. 
Length of the body 
Breadth of the thorax { ^ j 
This insect was first taken by the Rev. J. Burrell, in the 
neighbourhood of Holt, in Norfolk. The Rev. R. Sheppard 
has since found it occasionally in the spring, on Rushmere 
and Martleham heaths, between Ipswich and Woodbridge, 
in Suffolk. 
Although it very nearly resembles Sc. Typhceus Linn, it 
is, we think, nevertheless, quite distinct; it differs from 
it not only in size, being considerably smaller, but the 
horns of the thorax, compared with the head, are much 
shorter, and the surface of its sides more unequal, rugose, 
with a greater number of impressed points. In the female, 
which is larger than the male, instead of lateral horns, the 
thorax is armed on each side with a short tooth, or rather 
