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OF PHILADELPHIA. 301 



which is preoccupied in this genus; he informed me that it 

 " was captured in Virginia, in the early part of the year 1807. 

 Male and female were flying about in a ploughed field in innu- 

 merable multitudes." 



Judging from its habit, it belongs to Megerle's genus A}io- 

 mala. 



[An Anomala previously described as M. hinotata Schonh. — 

 Lec] 



HOPLIA Illig. 



H. TRIFASCIATA. — Head black : clypeus at tip reflected : tho- 

 rax densely covered with reddish-yellow scales : feet brownish- 

 red : scutel blackish : elytra light brownish-red, with sparse yel- 

 lowish scales, which, however, are more dense in some parts, so 

 as to form three bands, which are tolerably distinct ; of these, 

 one is at the base, the other on the middle, and the third near 

 the tip ; they are somewhat undulated : anal segment and beneath 

 densely covered with pale cinereous scales, which have, in some 

 parts, a cupreous reflection. The opposite sex is black on those 

 parts, which in the other are brownish-red, and the bands of the 

 elytra are hardly discernible : in both .sexes the humerus is pro- 

 minent, and at the decurvature of the elytra near the tip, they 

 are elevated almost into an angle. 



Length nearly one-third of an inch. 



The great difference in color between the two sexes of this 

 species, may readily deceive naturalists into the belief that they 

 are two distinct species. [201] 



[Described by Burmeister as H. primoaa ; the male also by 

 Melsheimer as H. tristis. — Lec] 



CETONIA Fabr. 



C. VESTITA. — Hairy ; clypeus emarginate ; elytra with a few 

 white spots. 



Body brownish-black, with very numerous, rather long, re- 

 flected, cinereous hairs : head with the hairs smaller and sparse 

 before ; clypeus widely emarginate at tip, the lateral angles sub- 

 acute and a little elevated ; lateral margin not recurved : thorax 

 with a carinated glabrous line, little elevated but very distinct : 

 elytra with two hardly obvious elevated lines on the middle, con- 

 1825.] 



