512 CLASS VIII. 
Ligula horny, immoveable, connate with mentum. Labrum mostly 
exsert, horny. 
These beetles in the perfect state live in great part on leaves, the 
larvee on the roots of all kinds of plants. 
Rutela Latr. Labrum exsert, mostly descending. Mandibles 
horny, exsert, with external margin often somewhat prominent, 
crenulate or dentate. Maxille with several teeth at the apex. 
Antennz with ten joints, club three-leafed. Feet thick, with claws 
of tarsi unequal, incurved. 
Areoda Lxeacu, Chrysophora D¥s., Pelidnota Mac L., Rutela 
Mac l., Macraspis Mac L., Chasmodia Mac L., and some other 
sub-genera, on which see Burmeister Lntom. Handb. tv. 1, 
pp. 380—429. 
Sp. Rutela chrysochlora LatR., Chrysophora chrysochlora D&s., HumMBoLDT 
et BoNPLAND, Observ. de Zool. et d’Anat. comp. 1. Pl. xv. figs. 1, 2, 
GuERIN Jconogr., Ins. Pl. 24, fig. 1; Peru; hind feet in male long, with 
broad thighs, and tibiz terminating in a triangular process turned inwards. 
Without having this process the hind feet in the male of Scarabeus macro- 
pus FRANCILLON, SHAW, Chrysophora macropa D&J., are in like manner 
very strongly developed. 
Rutela lineola Latr., Scarabeus (Surinamus and) lineola L., Cetonia 
Uineola Fasr., Vort Coleopt. 1. Tab. 1x. fig. 81; Surinam, Brazils.—Rutela 
splendida SCcHOENH., Cetonia splendida F., Vort Coleopt. 1. Tab. vutt. 
fig. 62, &e. 
All the species of this genus are exotic; the most are found in South 
America ; they have usually lively colours or a metallic lustre. 
Anomala Mrcrer.e (Euchlora Mac L.). Mandibles with ex- 
ternal margin rotundate, entire. Antenne with nine joints. (Other 
characters of the preceding genus; feet less thick, with external 
claw of four anterior feet mostly bifid.) 
Sp. Anomala Frischii (Melol. Frischii and Mel. Julii Fapr.), PANZER 
Deutschl. Ins. Heft 97, Tab. 9, 10, RatzEpure Forst-Ins. 1. Tab. 3, 
fig. 10; 4” to 6” long, green with usually yellowish brown elytra; it 
differs, however, much in colour; see the accurate description and syno- 
nymy in Ericuson Naturgesch. der Ins. Deutschl., Coleopt. 1. 1847, 
s. 625—627.—Anomala horticola, Scarab. horticola L., Melol. horticola F., 
(Anisoplia horticola Mue., Diés., Catal. des Coléopt. 3e édit.), PANZER 
Deutschl. Ins. Heft 47, Tab. 15, RatzEBuRG Forst-Ins. 1. Tab. 3, fig. 9 ; 
4°” long, hairy, with brown-red shield-covers, steel-coloured blue thorax ; 
very common. 
