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SCARABAEUS. 
242. Scarabaeus zebra.—This is hairy, brassy-green ; shells 
testaceous, with a brassy suture, and black stripe in the 
middle.—It is an African insect, of which the shield is 
emarginate, and the thorax downy. 
243. Scarabaeus iris.—Green, finely polished, with a brown 
shade.—It inhabits Surinam. 
244. Scarabseus clavatus.—Green, coppery, polished; 
shells testaceous ; sternum horned on the fore part.—This is 
a native of America. 
245. Scarabseus sordens.—Brassy-black; shells with two 
raised lines, and spotted with white.—It inhabits Brazil. 
246. Scarabseus Nitidulus.—Green-testaceous, polished; 
shield emarginated; shells pointed.—This is a small insect, 
and found in America. 
247. Scarabseus Philippensis.—Brassy, polished; thorax 
edged and spotted with white ; shells pointed, spotted with 
white.—This is found in several of the Philippine isles. 
The thorax is rounded with two white dorsal spots. 
248. Scarabseus maculatus.—Brassy, polished ; the thorax 
has a white spot on each side; the shells are marked with 
numerous white spots.—It is a native of Coromandel. The 
body beneath is copper; the breast w’ilh a large spot on 
each side; the abdomen is marked with four lines of white 
dots. 
249. Scarabseus areatus.—Black, downy; shells rufous on 
the disk ; these are gibbous behind, with a single raised line. 
—This species is a native of Virginia. 
250. Scarabseus floralis.—Smooth, black, edges of the 
thorax, shells, and abdomen white.—It inhabits Africa; on 
composite flowers. The head is black, with two white dots 
between the eyes ; the shield is slightly emarginate; the tail 
is prominent, and white; the edge of the abdomen is spotted 
with white. 
251. Scarabseus versicolor.—Black; thorax rufous, spotted 
with black; shells black, spotted with white, and a large 
rufous one on the disk.—It is found in Egypt. The scutel 
is black, with a white dot at the tip; abdomen black, the 
edges and tail are spotted with white. 
252. Scarabseus sequinoctialis.—Black: thorax edged 
with white; the shells are testaceous, with a white spot near 
the scutel and tip. 
253. Scarabseus histrio.—This is testaceous; the head and 
two lines on the thorax, suture, and three spots on the shells, 
are black. 
254. Scarabseus gloriosus.—Testaceous, polished, with 
abbreviated black lines.—It inhabits St. Domingo. 
255. Scarabseus cseruleus.—Smooth, glaucous; shells 
striate and punctured, steel-blue, with five white spots. 
256. Scarabseus metallicus.—Green gilt, beneath violet; 
there are four rings of the abdomen marked with a white 
spot. 
IV.—Mandible straight, obtuse. 
257. Scarabseus nobilis.—This is described by Mr. 
Donovan ; it is of a shining green; the abdomen behind is 
dotted with white; the shells are rugged. The larva is 
found on decayed wood, and the perfect insect on umbellate 
flowers. The larva is grey, the legs are yellowish, and the 
head ferruginous. 
258. Scarabseus fasciatus.—Black, clothed with yellow 
down ; the shells with three abbreviated black bands.—It is 
a native of this country, and of other parts of the north of 
Europe, and feeds on the flowers of the syringa, and on some 
umbelliferous plants. 
259. Scarabseus hemipterus.—This species is furnished 
with a scutellum; the thorax is downy, edged with two 
longitudinal wrinkles; the elytra are shortened.—This is a 
native of England. The larva is found in wood, and the 
perfect insect on floweis. The female is armed with a stiff 
short sting. 
260. Scarabseus lunulatus.—This is smooth, blue ; shells 
with two white lunules.—It inhabits Carolina. The shield 
is emarginate; the shells are very short. 
261. Scarabseus delta.—Thorax black, with a white 
triangle; the shells are testaceous, with a brown spot.—It 
inhabits America. 
262. Scarabseus fulvus.—Downy; thorax fulvous, with 
three black lines; the shells are testaceous, with a fulvous 
suture.—It is a native of the Cape. The antennee are pitchy, 
with a tuft of black hair in the middle: the scutel is 
triangular, with a fulvous spot in the middle; the tail is 
fulvous; the legs are pale testaceous. 
263. Scarabseus Carbonarius.—This is entirely black, 
hairy; the shield is narrow, grooved, bifid at the tip.—This 
is not an European insect. 
264. Scarabseus unguiculatus.—Grey, downy; thorax 
brown; shield narrow, grooved, bifid at the tip ; shells 
rufous, the edge is black and hairy ; the hind-legs are long 
and clawed. 
V.—Feelers capitate; jaw bifid. 
265. Scarabseus gemmatus.—Cinereous, thorax unequal; 
shell striate, and marked with raised black dots.—It inhabits 
Senegal. The antennae are pitchy, the first joint is hairy; 
the shells are marked with crenate stripes. 
266. Scarabseus sabulosus..—The thorax and shells of this 
species are rugged; the thorax is very entire ; antennae hairy 
at the base.—It inhabits this country and other parts of 
Europe. It is to be met with on sandy hills, which are ex¬ 
posed to the sun-shine. 
267. Scarabseus cornutus.—Thorax and shells spinous and 
serrate ; head with two projecting arched horns.—It inhabits 
Ceylon. 
268. Scarabseus morticinii. — Shield unequal, fringed; 
shells striate, convexly punctured, roiighish.—It is a native 
of Tartary, and found under dead carcases, which have been 
dried in the sun. It makes a certain noise by rubbing its 
shells together; the body is black and opaque. 
269. Scarabseus longipes.—Head and thorax black; the 
shells are pale testaceous, with a common black lunule; the 
hind-legs are very long.—It is found at the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
VI. —Feelers cylindrical; the club of the antennae tunicate. 
270. Scarabaeus cephalotes.—The body of this is roundish 
and black —It inhabits the driest deserts of Europe, under 
ground. The body is smooth, black, sub-opaque, without 
wings; the thorax is convex and margined; it has no 
scutel; the shells are scarcely longer than the thorax; the 
legs are formed for digging; the mandible is falcate, toothed 
within. 
271. Scarabaeus banksii.—Body oblong, and of a grassy- 
green colour.—It is a native of Norfolk island. The an¬ 
tennae are short, black, perforated at the tip ; the head has a 
raised triangle in the middle; the mandible is large, re¬ 
curved, truncate, emarginate, hairy and ferruginous within; 
the thorax is sub-punctured, the edge is deflected on each 
side at the angle; the shells are a little rugged, not joined ; 
the legs are brassy ; the shanks are toothed. 
VII. —Feelers unequal; the fore ones sub-clavate ; the hind 
ones filiform. 
272. Scarabaeus reticulatus.—Black ; shells reticulate and 
grey.—It is a native of Madagascar. Head and thorax are 
black, immaculate; the abdomen is ferruginous. 
273. Scarabaeus uniformis. — Black, immaculate.— This, 
also, inhabits Madagascar. 
We have now given an account of the chief species of 
this very extensive genus; and so great is the singularity of 
appearance in many kinds, that scarcely can any imagination 
conceive a structure of horn, or process which is not exem¬ 
plified in some of the tribes. 
SCARABiEUS VORAX, the Cankerworm. The last 
term is used in the translation of our bibles to signify a very 
destructive insect, of the nature of the locust, and usually 
mentioned as its companion. The Septuagint gives it the 
name /3 bruchus, a name signifying an animal which 
makes a great noise, as this insect does both in eating and in 
flying. 
