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PLATE CXII.

SCARABÆUS FULLO.

COLEOPTERA .

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennæ clavated, their extremities fissile. Five joints in eachfoot.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER ,,

AND

STNONTMS.

Antennæ, of seven laminæ *. Head, thorax, and shells brown,spotted with white. Beneath white.

Scarabæus Fullo scutellatus muticus, antennis heptaphyllis,corpore nigro pilis albis, scutello maculaduplici alba. Linn, Syfi. Nat, 2. 553.57 .—Fn. Sv. 394.

Scaraeæus, &C. Geoff. Inf. I. 69. 2.

Frisch. Ins. 11. tab. I. fig. I.Scarabæus Variegatus. Roes. Inf. 4. tab. 30.

Schesff. Icon. tab. I},, fig. 2.

Hœfin. Ins. 2. tab. 7.

Sulz. Hist. Inf. x. x.

Melslontha Fullo. Fab, Spec. Inf. 1. 35. 1.

Except the Stag Beetle , (Cervus Lucanus) which is figured alreadythis work, this is the largest Coleopterous Insect ever found inEngland ; it is extremely rare, and is said to be met with only in thesand on the sea coast near Sandwich.

* The antennæ of the male is very large, as shewn in our figure} the antennæ of thefinale is represented at Fig. 1.

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