56 LAMELLICORNIA. { Anomala. 
body is cyaneous; head thickly punctured, antenne reddish with club 
blackish ; thorax transverse, narrowed in front, sinuate at base, disc 
rather strongly and evenly punctured, posterior angles blunt ; scutellum 
large, thickly and strongly punctured; elytra with punctured strie, 
interstices of irregular breadth, the first the broadest, the wider ones 
flatter and more thickly: punctured ; under-side more or less metallic, 
thinly pubescent in front and at sides of abdomen ; legs black or pitchy. 
L. 8-12 mm. 
Male with the external claw of the anterior tarsi slightly dilated. 
Sandy places on the coast, also by beating young trees; sometimes on the wing; 
generally distributed along the mid and southern coasts of England and Wales, but 
rarer further north; Scotland, rare, Clyde, Forth and Tay districts; Ireland co. 
Kerry, co. Cork, and near Belfast ; it usually occurs on the coast or near the sea, but 
sometimes is found inland, and has been taken at Woking, Richmond, &e. The 
unicolorous green variety is very rare, and bas occurred at Ripley, Surrey, Richmond, 
and Braunton Burrows, North Devon. 
The Anomala Donovani of Stephens appears to be a very rare variety 
of this species ; it is described by him as follows on the authority of 
two specimens, locality unknown, in the British Museum, and two taken 
by Donovan in Glamorganshire :—‘‘ Black brass, slightly shining ; elytra 
punctate-striate, testaceous, the suture, apex, and sides bronzed-black, 
the dise with a bruwn-red band across the middle ; legs pitchy.” 
CETONIINA. 
This tribe contains a very large number of genera and species, which 
are perpetually being added to, as the members of the tribe are such 
conspicuous insects that they attract the attention of even the most 
casual observers, and are therefore more often collected by travellers than 
perhaps those of any other group; some idea of the extent of the tribe 
may perhaps be gathered from the fact that since the publication of the 
Munich catalogue of the Scarabeide in 1869, no fewer than one 
hundred and forty-eight genera and eight hundred and fifty new species 
have been described ; ten genera, represented by thirty-six species, occur 
in Europe, of which four genera and seven species are found in Britain ; 
they may be known from the Rutelina by having the tarsal claws equal, 
and may be divided as follows :— 
I, Elytra emarginate at sides; epimera of mesothorax visible 
from above. 
i. Legs stout; anterior tibiae with three teeth on their 
outer side; tarsi not longer than tibiae SD hry ee 
ii. Legs less stout ; anterior tibiz with two teeth on their 
outer side; tarsi much longerthan tibiae . . . . . 
II. Elytra not emarginate at sides; epimera of mesothorax 
not visible from above. 
i. Elytra taken together longer than broad; thorax 
glabrous Uae Ta eae Oe ee ee ee 
ii. Elytra taken together not longer than broad ; thorax 
pilose d Sec ; = 
Creronia, Fab. 
(OXYTHEREA, Muls.) 
GNORIMUS, Serv. 
Tricuivs, F. 
