48 LAMELLICORNIA. [ Hoplia. 
HOPLIA, Illiger. 
This genus contains about seventy or eighty species, of which twenty 
are found in Europe, and the remainder are widely distributed, repre- 
sentatives occurring in Siberia, China and Hong Kong, India, Madagascar 
and South Africa, Teneriffe, and North, Central and South America; 
one species only occurs in Britain, which may be easily known by the 
long single elaw of the posterior tarsi. 
H. philanthus, Fiiss. (argentea, Ol.; pulverulenta, F.). Upper 
surface finely squamulose, thorax clothed sparingly with small pale sete; 
head black, much narrower than thorax, anterior margin strongly 
marked; thorax black, narrower than elytra, contracted in front and 
produced in middle of base, together with head finely, closely, and 
somewhat rugosely punctured; scutellum rounded; elytra depressed, 
rather uneven, finely and rugosely punctured; pygidium exposed, 
closely punctured; legs rather stout, anterior and intermediate pairs with 
unequal claws, posterior pair with a single claw. L. 63-8 mm. 
Male entirely dark or dark with fuscous or reddish-brown or reddish- 
testaceous elytra; scales on upper surface more scanty and cinereous, on 
the under surface thick and bluish; antenne and legs black; female 
thicker and narrower, with the elytra always reddish-brown or reddish-tes- 
taceous; scales on upper surface, especially of thorax, greenish, or greenish- 
cinereous, on the under-side distinctly greenish; antenne and legs red, 
On flowering shrubs and plants; local, but usually common where it occurs; 
Battersea Fields, Tooting, Woking, Chatham, Lee, West Wickham, Sheerness, 
Purley, Highgate, Tonbridge, &c.; Pegwell Bay; Dover; Glanvilles Wootton ; New 
Forest ; Isle of Wight; Southampton; Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset; Swansea ; 
Forest of Dean; Bewdley Forest; Knowle, near Birmingham; Ely ; Newmarket 
Notts; Manchester; Southport; Northumberland and Durham district, ‘“ abundant 
on our western border and about Lanercost” (Bold); it has not, however, been 
recorded from Scotland; it probably occurs in Ireland in several localities. 
HOMALOPLIA, Stephens. 
This genus contains thirteen or fourteen species, of which seven are 
found in Europe, and the remainder occur in Siberia, Algeria, Abyssinia, 
and Asia Minor; they are allied to Serica, but are less elongate and more 
depressed, and may be known by the shorter anterior tibie and different 
pubescence; the single British species is one of the most local and rare 
Ve our Tepacteorin,. S 
H. ruricola, I. Oblong, rather cepressed, head and thorax black, 
elytra reddish, with the suture and margins sharply and rather broadly 
black; head thickly punctured, with anterior margin raised, antenne 
reddish with club often darker; thorax transverse, eradually rounded and 
narrowed in front, strongly and not very thickly punctured, pilose, 
