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SCARABiEUS. 
169. Scarabaeus errans.—Testaceous; thorax with black 
spots ; the legs are rulous.—It is an inhabitant of this country, 
and is of the size of the Scarabaeus horticola; it varies in 
having the thorax sometimes testaceous, immaculate; rarely 
black, with a testaceous edge; the shells are sometimes 
edged with black. 
170. Scarabaeus umbrosus.—Sub-testaceous, with grey 
down; the legs are testaceous.—-It inhabits Guinea. The 
shield is rounded and entire; the edge a little reflected. 
171. Scarabaeus rupicola.—Downy,greenish; head black; 
—It is found at the Cape. The body is small, and beneath 
it is cinereous. 
172. Scarabaeus raucus.—Shield reflected; thorax and 
shells punctured, brassy-black.—It is a native of Coromandel. 
The shield is punctured, black; shells with an elevated line 
or two; the body is black. 
173. Scarabaeus splendidus.—Black ; the shells are marked 
with an abbreviated golden band.—This is found at the 
Cape of Good Hope. It is -a small insect; the shield is 
punctured, black, emarginate at the tip ; the thorax is punc¬ 
tured, immaculate; shells punctured, with an oblong oval 
spot or band. 
174. Scarabaeus horticola.—Head and thorax blue, hairy; 
the shells are testaceous, and the legs black.—It is found 
chiefly in gardens and orchards in this country, and other 
parts of Europe, being extremely destructive to the roots 
of cabbages, and the beetle itself is equally so to the apple- 
tree. 
175. Scarabaeus abdominalis.—Head and thorax blue, 
hairy; shells testaceous; abdomen covered with white down. 
—This is chiefly found in Italy. It very much resembles 
the horticola. 
176. Scarabaeus floricola.—Black-blue, smooth; shells 
rufous; abdomen with fasciculate white dots; shield reflected. 
—It inhabits Africa. 
177. Scarabaeus arvicola.—Hairy ; shield reflected; thorax 
blueish ; body black.—It inhabits Russia, and resembles the 
horticola. The shells are black. 
178. Scarabaeus praticola.—Thorax a little hairy, varied 
with yellow and black; the shells are testaceous.—This is a 
native of Siberia. 
179. Scarabaeus fruticola.—Head and thorax covered with 
blue down; the shells are livid, and the shield reflected at 
the tip. 
180. Scarabaeus ruricola.—Black, silky ; shells rufous, 
surrounded with a black edge.—It is an inhabitant of this 
country. The shells are dusky, with a darker edge. 
181. Scarabaeus atomarius.—Minutely speckled with 
white; thorax caniculate, black; the shells are brown; 
abdomen white; with lateral black dots.—It inhabits the 
Cape. The shells are powdered, with white specks; the 
abdomen is snowy, with a line of black dots on each side. 
182. Scarabaeus farinosus.—Black, covered with blue 
scales; shells abbreviated: shield entire.—Inhabits various 
parts of Europe. The body above is blue and polished; 
thorax broad; when put into hot water, the blue changes to 
a vivid green. 
183. Scarabaeus argenteus.—Black, beneath silvery, po¬ 
lished ; shells testaceous.—This is a native of England. The 
shells are shorter than the body, gibbous behind ; legs testa¬ 
ceous ; the hind ones elongated. 
184. Scarabaeus cinctus.—Brassy-black, polished; shells 
brown, edged with black.—It inhabits Guadaloupe. Small, 
head and thorax immaculate; the legs are spinous and 
black. 
185. Scarabaeus spinipes.—Black, immaculate; hind-legs 
elongated, thighs one-spined at the base.—It inhabits the 
Cape. The shield is elevated at the tip, dusky; thorax 
and shells opaque; hind thighs with a strong sharp spine at 
the base. 
186. Scarabaeus dentipes.—Black; shells testaceous; shield 
four-toothed; hind-thighs and shanks spinous.—This is a 
native of the Cape. The head and thorax black, downy; 
the hind-thighs one-spined ; the shanks are two-spined. 
187. Scarabaeus crassipes.—Black, spotted with white; 
hind-legs long and very thick.—This also is a native of the 
Cape, as are the next three. 
188. Scarabaeus gonager.—Grey; legs rufous; hind-thighs 
thick, and uuarmed. 
189. Scarabaeus cancroides.—Black, minutely speckled 
with white; the hind-thighs long, very thick, spinous at the 
tip. In this the shield is widely emarginate ; the thorax is 
a little speckled with white at the edge; abdomen white, the 
last segment prominent, with a broad black band. 
190. Scarabaeus margo.—Thorax black, edged with white; 
shells testaceous. The head is black, immaculate; thorax 
rounded; shells short; scutel cinereous; body beneath co¬ 
vered with white down; the legs are black, the hind-onesa 
little elongated. 
191. Scarabaeus pulverulentus.—Body covered with a 
greenish-silvery bran ; shells and legs testaceous.—This is a 
native of Germany. 
192. Scarabaeus maurus.—Hairy, black; shield reflected. 
—This is an inhabitant of Barbary; it is the Melolontha 
morio of Fabricius. The body is immaculate -. shield very 
much reflected. 
193 Scarabaeus subspinosus.—Yellowish; the legs are 
rufous; the thorax subspinous.—This is an inhabitant of 
America. 
194. Scarabaeus minutus.—Black - ; shells grey; legs tes¬ 
taceous, hind-thighs sharply toothed.—A native of the Cape. 
It is a very small insect; head and thorax hairy; shells 
smooth, immaculate; hind-thighs with a strong recurved 
tooth at the base. 
195. Scarabaeus mutabilis.—Black, rough, with cinereous 
down.—It is a native of Tranquebar. 
196. Scarabaeus variabilis.—Blackish; shells with a cine¬ 
reous gloss; the antennae and legs testaceous.—It inhabits 
Germany, and some parts of America, and subsists on rotten 
wood. The head and thorax are black and immaculate : the 
shells are striate. 
197. Scarabaeus aranoides.—The shield of this insect is a 
little reflected ; the body is yellowish ; the shells are ferrugi¬ 
nous, slightly barred with brown.—This is a native of the 
Cape. 
198. Scarabaeus lineatus.—This is of a dull greenish hue; 
the shells are marked with rufous lines.—It is found in Sierra 
Leone. It is small and gibbous; the mouth is marked with 
black ; the body beneath is black, but the legs are pitchy. 
199. Scarabaeusmonticola.—Shield entire, reflected; body 
smooth; testaceous; the head is black.—It is a native of 
New Holland. It is a very small insect. 
200. Scarabaeus humeralis.—Black; shells at the base, and 
spot in the middle, pale.—It inhabits New Holland. 
201. Scarabaeus ursus.—Black, covered with long and 
thick hair; the fore legs are testaceous.—It is found at the 
Cape. The shield is projecting, emarginate at the tip ; the 
thighs are black ; sometimes all the legs are black. 
202. Scarabaeus lynx.—Hairy, black; edge of the shells 
golden.—It is found at the Cape. 
203. Scarabaeus vulpes.—Golden, with tawny hairs; ab¬ 
domen ferruginous.—This species is found in Siberia. The 
head is short and entire ; it is golden, with a blackish edge; 
the abdomen is black at the base ; the tip of the male is in¬ 
flected, two-toothed ; the legs are golden. 
204. Scarabaeus bombylius.—Black, with cinereous hairs; 
the shells are testaceous, wilh three whitish lines at the tip. 
—-It inhabits Africa. The shells of this species are smooth, 
with three lateral lines, from the middle to the tip. 
205. Scarabaeus vittatus.—Blue, hairy; shells testaceous, 
with three whitish lines.—It inhabits India. This insect is 
more oblong than most others of the genus; the shield is 
truncate'; the shells shorter than the body, with three lines 
composed of whitish down; the body beneath is hairy. 
206. Scarabaeus unicolor.—This species is entirely tawny, 
smooth; the shells are impressed with dots.—It inhabits 
India. 
207. Scarabaeus pellucidus.—Silky, dusky, clouded with 
white ; shells ribbed.—This is a native of Germany. 
208. Scarabaeus fuscescens.—This is brownish ; the scutel 
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