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widened behind, of a greyish-black colour, very dull; forehead thickly 
punctured; antenne reddish; thorax slightly narrower than elytra, 
narrowed in front, anterior angles projecting, upper surface uneven, sides 
fringed with thickly set yellowish sete; elytra with very shallow flat 
strie which are obsoletely notched by cross punctures, interstices 
alternately furnished with larger and smaller bunches of very short 
brownish-yellow or yellowish sete; legs blackish or reddish-brown. 
L. 53-6 mm. 
Sandy places; in dry carcases, bones, hides, &c.; rather local, but not uncommon 
in several midland and southern localities, but very rare further north; London 
district, rather common, Blackheath, Dulwich, Mickleham, Coombe Wood, Forest 
Hill, Tilgate Forest, Tonbridge; Brandon, Suffolk; Hastings; Glanvilles 
Wootton (common in stock-doves’ nests inside old apple trees) ; New Forest ; South- 
ampton; Braunston Burrows, Devon; Bristol; Swansea ; Bewdley ; Tewkesbury ; 
Scarborough ; Stretford and Dunham Park, Manchester ; not recorded from the 
Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, very rare, Solway district, ‘“‘ Jardine 
Hall, Murray’s Cat.” 
SCARABAIDA MELOLONTHINI. 
As will be seen from the description before given (p. 9), this 
group is intermediate between the other two groups into which the Sea- 
rabeeide are here divided. Dr. Horn and Dr. Leconte again divide the 
group into the Laparostict and Pleurostict Melolonthini, according to 
the position of the abdeminal spiracles; as, however, none of the species 
belonging to the former of these groups are found in Britain, they need 
not here be discussed, A considerable number of genera and a large 
number of species are found in the group, but they are, with the 
exception of one or two genera, more characteristic of tropical than 
temperate climates; nineteen genera occur in Europe, containing about 
two hundred species; of these five genera, represented by only seven 
species, are found in Britain, and only two genera and three species have 
been recorded from Scotland. 
I. Tibiz with one spur, which is sometimes obsolete ; pos- 
terior tarsi with asingleclaw. :- +... . . . = « 
II. Intermediate and posterior tibie with two spurs; pos- 
terior tarsi with two equal claws. 
i, Antenne with the club composed of three lamella. 
1. Anterior tibiz short, with joints 2-4 scarcely longer 
ERAMDS OAM etait dale chs er a ee es who HOMATLOMETA, Steph. 
2.*All the tibie long, with the joints elongate. 
A. Upper surface with fine and very short pubescence ; 
scutellum elongate triangular . ...... 
B. Upper surface with long hirtose pubescence, es- 
pecially on thorax and scutellum ; scutellum some- 
what rounded’). 2 gs es  s RALZOTREOGUS) Hair. 
ii, Antenna with the club composed of seven lamella 
in the male and six inthefemale. . . . . . . . MEnotontHa, F. 
Hoptia, Z/l. 
Serica, MeL. 
