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ground, in which they change into pale-coloured pupz ; these larvae are most destruc- 
tive to turf; as Curtis remarks, by their consuming the roots the grass dies ; the dead 
turf becomes rotten, and will sink in patches under the feet, owing to the burrows 
which the maggots have made in the earth ; and the rooks and starlings add to the 
disorder by pulling up the turf to feed upon them; they appear to continue in the 
larval state for three years ; the remedies for their destruction appear to be much the 
same as those adopted to get rid of Melolontha vulgaris ; as, however, the larve are 
more tender than those of the latter insect, it is probable that external dressings of 
gas liquor and salt water, or of lime, potash and other alkalies would have a greater 
effect in destroying them.* 
P. horticola, L. Oblong, depressed, rather shining, pilose ; head 
and thorax of a greenish or cyaneous colour, metallic, shining, elytra 
reddish-testaceous, with suture, as a rule, usually darker ; head 1ugose 
in front, antenne reddish with dark club; thorax narrower than elytra, 
transverse, narrowed in front, posterior angles prominent, dise coarsely 
punctured; scutellum large, almest semicircular, dark, sparingly 
punctured ; elytra rather strongly, but not deeply, punctured in some- 
what irregular rows ; legs long, especially in the males ; under-side of 
front parts villose. L. 7-10 mm. 
Male with the body more thickly pilose, and the exterior claw more 
broadly dilated. 
On flowers, young trees, &c. ; commonly and generally distributed throughout the 
kingdom ; more abundant in some years than in others; occasionally quite black 
specimens occur; small specimens are also rarely found in which the head and thorax 
are black with a bluish tinge, and the elytra are light testaceous, with the margins 
and suture black ; these belong to the var. suturalis, Stephens ; there is an old 
specimen of this variety in Dr. Power’s collection, but this is the only one that I have 
seen. 
ANOMALA, Samouelle. 
This is a very extensive genus, and comprises upwards of three 
hundred species, the majority of which are found in tropical countries ; 
they range however as far north as Siberia; fourteen or fifteen species 
inhabit Europe, of which one only is found in Britain ; they may be 
known from Phyllopertha by their much more convex shape and the 
absence of a margin at the base of thorax, as well as by their glabrous, 
or almost glabrous, upper surface; our single British species is very 
variable in colour. 
A. Frischii, F. (@nca, De G.; Julii, Fab.,Gyll., Payk, &.). Slightly 
obovate, strongly convex, moderately shining, head and thorax greenish 
geneous or greenish, sometimes cyaneous, elytra reddish, or reddish-brown, 
usually with a more or less distinct metallic reflection, sometimes entirely 
of a dark green metallic colour, concolorous with thorax ; very rarely the 
elytra are cyaneous, and the head and thorax are greenish, or the whole 
* It should perhaps be mentioned that this beetle is a good bait for trout, chub, 
and other fish; my earliest Coleopterous reminiscence is the collection of a number of 
these ‘‘ fern-webs” as a small boy, in North Devon, for a relation who required them 
for fishing. 
