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HOPLIA (Munich Cat.). 

 22. HOPLIA CONCOLOR, n. sp. 



Oblonga, sat elongata, ferruginea squamulis pallide griseis, magnis, fere cequaliter 

 cestita ; tarsorum posticorum unguiculo mutico. 



Long. 8 mm., lat. 4y mm. 



The head, except in front, is rather darker than the rest of the surface ; the scales it bears 

 are pale, sub-depressed, and narrower than on the rest of the surface, and on the front part 

 where they are scanty are setae rather than scales. The thorax is of the same form as in 

 Melolontha fframinicola,~Eab., but it is evenly clothed with closely set, coarse, pale ochre-coloured 

 scales, and bears also a very few erect fine setse. The elytra are long, and are clothed in a 

 similar manner to the thorax, the scales being very nearly circular in form. The pygidium, 

 propygidium, and ventral segments are also closely covered with scales but little different from 

 those of the elytra. The legs are of a uniform reddish colour scarcely different from the 

 elytra. 



The only individual I have seen is a female ; it has the antennae 9-jointed, and the front 

 tibiae with two moderately prominent teeth, and an emargination above the upper one ; the 

 front claw seems quite single and without tooth ; the claw of the middle foot has a very 

 minute division some distance before the apex, while the posterior claw seems to be quite 

 simple. 



The species seems to me more allied to Melolontha graminicola, Fab., than to any other 

 I know ; but it is of a more elongate and parallel form, of a paler and more uniform colour 5 

 and is clothed with larger scales. 



Kogyar, 31st May to 2nd June 1874. 



SERICA (Munich Cat.). 

 23. SEKICA L.ETICTJLA, n. sp. 



Obovata, convexa, nitidula, tantum abdomine opaco, lata, brunneo-ferrnginea ; prothorace 

 fortiter punctato, elytris seriatim punctatis, seriebus leviter depressis, interstitiis planis, 

 tanlum juxta series punctatis ; antennis 10-articulatis, flabelli articulo primo apice 

 emarginato. 



Long. 8| mm., lat. 4 mm. 



Similar in form to Serica mutata, except that it is much broader and only a little longer ; 

 the whole of the upper surface quite shining ; clypeus emarginate in front, the whole of its 

 anterior part coarsely and rugosely punctured, the hinder part sparingly but distinctly 

 punctured. Thorax strongly transverse, evenly and coarsely punctured. Sscutellum coarsely 

 and closely punctured, with a smooth longitudinal space along the middle. Elytra with rows of 

 punctures, which are so little depressed as scarcely to amount to striae ; the interstices hardly 

 at all convex, and their punctures confined to the neighbourhood of the rows of punctures. 

 Pygidium rather obsoletely punctured, shining ; outer edge of hind coxa scarcely twice as lon 

 as the outer edge of metasternum, its hind margin slightly sinuate near the outer angle, 

 which is hardly at all rounded ; the punctures of the hind coxae coarse and ocellate. 



