HOPLIA CCERULEA. 



Plate XXXII. fig. 4. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: MeloIonthitlEE, MacLeay. 



Genus. Hoplia, niiger. Meloloiitha p. Fabricius. Scarabceus p. Drury. 



HOPLIA CcERULEA. Supra coerulpo, subtus argenteo-sriuamosa nitens, clyi^eo integro. (Long. Corp. circ. .5 lin.) 



Syn. Scarabaeus coeruleus, Drury, App. vol. 2. Herbst. Col. 111. p. 121. 73. 



Scarabseus farinosus, Zinn, Syst. Nat. 1 . 2. 555. 



Melolontha farinosa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. p. 38. 31. Syst. Eleuth. II. 177. 29. Panzer Faun. Ins. Germ. 

 28. 16. Gufrin Icon. R. An. Ins. t. 25. (Hoplia far.) 



Melolontha squamosa, Olivier Ent. 1 . 5. p. GO. 90. t. 2. /! 14. a. c. (nee. Fabr.) 



Hoplia formosa, Latr. Gen. Or. &; Ins. 2. p. 116. 2. Schon. Syn. Ins. 3. 158. (errorp typic. pro farinosa.) 



Habitat: South of Europe, France (Drury). 



All the upper parts of this insect are of a beautiful brilliant sky blue. The under parts are of a 

 silvery pale green. Head somewhat quadrangular, and margined. Thorax and upper parts covered 

 with a short fine down or hair. Scutellum triangular. Elytra margined, and at their extemities having 

 two tubercles, the anus extending beyond them. All the under parts are covered with short hair, like 

 down, of a silveiy green colour. Abdominal scales large and distinct. Sternum not produced. 

 Tarsi red brown, the posterior having only a single unguis. 



Taken in the greatest profusion near Sevres by M. A. Gory. 



CETONIA CORDATA. 



Plate XXXII. fig. 5. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Lamellicornes. Family' : Cetoniidae. 



Genus. Cetonia, Fabricius, Sfc, Scarabseus p. Linn, Sfc. 



Cetonia Cokdata. Testacea, thorace lineis punctisque duobus, elytris maculis quatuor transversis nigris. (Long. 

 Corp. 9 lin.) 



Syn. ScarabiEus cordatus, Drury, App. vol. 2. (1773). 



Cetonia olivacea, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 47. 26. Syst. El. 11. p. 147. -59. Oliv. Ent. 16. p. 37. 41. t. 8. 



/. 69. a. 

 Cetonia Tigris, Herbst. Col. 111. p. 243. 30. t. 30./. 8. 



Habitat : New York. 



Head sooty black, having a cordate mark of a dark orange brown colour. Thorax orange brown, 

 with two black marks crossing it, and a black lateral spot. Scutellum triangular and orange brown. 

 Elytra orange brown, with four black bars, of different shapes, crossing them, and reaching almost from 

 side to side ; the first being situated next the thorax, and interrupted by the escutcheon, the margin and 

 suture being black. Anus extending beyond the wing cases. Abdomen orange brown, with small black 

 rings. Sternum short and yellow. Abdominal scales small and close. Legs orange brown. 



Mr. Smeathman informed Mr. Drury that this insect, in its natural state, is black and 

 yellow, and not black and orange-brown, as described above ; its yeUow colour soon fading 

 after death, so that it seldom arrives in Europe in its natural colours. 



