[2] The Excursion.

[3] The females (Scarabæus argenteus, Marsh.) have red legs, and the males (Scarabæus pulverulentus, Marsh.) black.

[4] Kirby in Linn. Trans. v. 256.

[5] The authors of this work were the witnesses of the magnificent scene here described. It was on the second of September. The first was on the ninth of that month.

[6] De Geer, vi. 338.

[7] Naturforsch. xvii. 226.

[8] Nat. Hist. ii. 101.

[9] Vol. I. [265]

[10] Fn. Germ. Init. xlix. 18.

[11] Philos. Trans. lxxiii. 217.