26 HETEROMERA. [ Lagriide. 
genera and one hundred and thirty species; over one hundred of these 
are comprised in the two genera Lagria and Statira, the latter of which 
appears to be confined to the New World ; two genera only, Lagria and 
Agnathus, are found in Europe, and the latter of these has been added 
since the publication of Gemminger and Von Harold’s catalogue ; of 
the thirteen European species one only is found in Britain ; in many 
points they resemble the Tenebrionide, but differ in having the anterior 
cox conical and prominent; the antenne are 11-jointed, filiform, in- 
serted under very small oblique frontal ridges ; the thorax is narrower 
than the elytra, more or less cylindrical; the elytra are rounded at 
apex and entirely cover abdomen; the abdomen has five free ventral 
segments, of which the first four are more closely connected, a sixth 
being sometimes visible; the legs are slender, and the penultimate joint 
of all the tarsi is dilated and bilobed, and clothed beneath with a thick 
brush of hairs, which gives it a spongy appearance ; the body is pilose. 
LAGRIA, Fabricius. 
This genus contains about seventy species, which are widely dis- 
tributed throughout the Old World from Siberia to the Cape of Good 
Hope ; the majority, however, occur in hot or tropical countries; the 
genus is not, apparently, represented in the New World, where its place 
is taken by Statira ; about a dozen species are found in Europe; the 
single British species is in many districts exceedingly abundant. 
The larva and pupa of Lagria hirta are described and figured by Schiddte (xi. 
pp. 526, 531, pl. xiv. 12, 21) ; the larva is moderately broad, the length being about tive 
times as great as the width, parallel-sided, with a very small short head, and the last 
abdominal segment small, conical and finely bifid at apex; the segments on each side 
are furnished with tufts of hairs; the prothorax, which is gradually and slightly nar- 
rowed in front, is the longest segment, and the second and third abdominal segments 
are the shortest; the colour is rather light, with a central longitudinal fuscous band 
on each segment, which is often divided in the centre by a light band, and with a 
fuscous patch on each side; on the last two segments the central patch does not reach 
apex ; the legs are comparatively long. 
The pupa is moderately long, and is chiefly remarkable for the long broad clavate 
processes which project one on each side from all the abdominal segments except the 
two last ; the whole surface is hairy. 
L. hirta, L. Black, shining, villose, with the elytra pale testaceous, 
of soft and flexible consistency; head, together with eyes, broader than 
thorax in male, about as broad in female, sparingly punctured ; thorax 
subquadrate, small, much narrower than elytra, with a broad central 
longitudinal impression, sparingly punctured, often almost smooth in 
middle ; elytra rather closely, distinctly and subrugosely punctured, with 
faint traces of raised lines. L. 7-9 mm. 
Male narrower, with the last joint of the antenne three times as long 
as the preceding, and the eyes larger, projecting beyond sides of 
thorax. 
