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SCARABHUS TESTUDINARIUS. 
CoLEOPTERA, 
- GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne clavated, their extremities fifile. Five joints in each 
foot. 892 ) 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Head black without tubercles. Thorax black, pun@ured, and covered — 
with fhort foft hairs. Shells deeply and equally ftriated, fo as to pro- 
duce even and regular ridges between the ftria, which are of an ob- 
fcure black, fprinkled with fmall fpots of a deep eal Feet are of _ 
a dirty brown colour. 
This beautiful animal was defcribed by Fabricius as an Englith 
Infect in his firft work, the Sy/fema Entomologia, but we have never 
feen a fpecimen of it before. A figure of this Infeét may be found in — 
Fuefly, Fablonfky, and Olivier; but thefe works being in few hands, 
we truft our figure will not be unacceptable to the Englith Ento- 
mologift, : 
aS ig. I. The cee fize denoted by a line. - 
Fig. I, The magnified appearance. 
— | . FIG, 
