80 BEETLES. 



head and pronotum in the male. The elytra are dark orange, 

 and have all the margins bordered with black ; they may also 

 be black with a yellow spot on the shoulder, and are rarely 

 entirely black. It may be found in the daytime on flowers 

 during the summer. It is very local with us. 



Genus Seeica, MacLeay. 



All the tarsi are elongated, and longer than the tibiae. The 

 anterinse have nine or ten joints, and a trilobate extremity. 

 The hind coxse are broad and plate-like, and cover the first 

 two segments of the abdomen more or less completely. The 

 tarsi, and fan of the antennae are longer in the males than in 

 the females. They fly by night. 



* >S'. brunnea, Linn. This is the only British representative 

 of the genus. It is elongated, convex, reddish-ocherous. The 

 wing-cases are slightly grooved, the grooves being punctured. 

 The antennae have nine joints. The pronotum is twice as 

 broad as it is long, with rather coarse, scattered punctures on 

 the upper surface. It is found on grass, in pine and other 

 woods, in June and July, and is rather local in England. 



Genus Melolontha, Fabr. 



Antennae with ten joints, the third being elongated. The 

 fan is seven-lobed in the males, and rather large and six-lobed 

 in the females. The elytra are brown, with three raised ridges. 

 The abdomen is produced into a shorter or longer point. They 

 live on trees, and often appear in large numbers. 



* M. vulr/aris, Linn., the Common Cockchafer (Plate YIIL, 

 rig. 13). End of the abdomen broadly elongated, spade-like. 

 Pronotum black, more rarely reddish-brown. The beetle 

 appears in April and May in warm localities in three years^ 

 and in cold place.i in four, in great abundance, and is ver^" 



