THE 
KANGUROO BEETLE.- 
Generic Character. 
Antenna divided at the tip or head into feveral 
lamellae., 
Tibia or fecond joints of the fore-legs generally 
toothed. 
Specific Character. 
Scutellated bright-green BEETLE, gold-coppery 
beneath ; with projedting bread:; the thighs 
of the hind-legs very thick. 
Francill . defer, of a rare Scarabaus. 
It has been already obferved in the prefent work 
that in the genus Scarabaeus Nature feems to have 
exerted an almoft capricious diverlity of form ; the 
molt extravagant fhapes that can eafily be conceived 
prefenting themfelves to our view amongll: the larger 
animals of this tribe. It is alfo to be obferved that, 
in general, the color of the larger beetles is either 
black or brown, and feldom exhibits that rich affort- 
rnent of brilliant hues fo confpicuous in many of the 
fmaller coleopterous infedts. A ftriking exception 
however to this rule occurs in the infedt reprefented 
in 
