*EH£ BEETLE. 
357 
labours of the hnibandman : The more induftrious he has 
beCn, Hi d the richei his Helds are] the more is he expoled 
to their unwelcome vifitations. Thofe which have ob- 
tained the name of pilularii delight in the filthiefl: matter; 
and they have obtained that appellation from thofe round 
balls of excrement which they form, in order to depofit 
their ergs. Happily for the fcanty produ&ions of thefe 
northern climates, only a fmall proportion of thefe nau- 
feous and deftru live infects are produced there : fewer, 
perhaps, are found in Britain than in the correfponding 
latitudes upon the continent. 
Of th fcarabtei, properly fo called, there are three di- 
flinH families : In the firll, the thorax is armed with 
horns ; the fecond has horns upon the head, and is un- 
armed in the thorax ; in the third, both the head and 
thorax are without horns. Some of the infeas belonging 
to each of thefe families ar c fcutellati, or furnilhed with 
that part called the efeutcheon, while others belonging to 
each of them are without it. Our enumeration lhall 
comprehend a fpecies belonging to each of thefe fami- 
lies. 
I’be Bull. comber *„ 
This ipecies is not very frequent in Britain ; and is of 
a veiy Angular conformation. 7’he body is broad and 
Store ; the elytra have longitudinal ftreaks that difappear 
2 gradually 
* Scarabsus Typhsus, Lin. Syft, 
