512 CLASS VIII. 



Ligula horny, immoveable, connate with mentum. Labram mostly 

 exsert, horny. 



These beetles in the perfect state live in great part on leaves, the 

 larvae on the roots of all kinds of plants. 



Rutela LATR. Labrum exsert, mostly descending. Mandibles 

 horny, exsert, with external margin often somewhat prominent, 

 crenulate or dentate. Maxillae with several teeth at the apex. 

 Antennse with ten joints, club three-leafed. Feet thick, with claws 

 of tarsi unequal, incurved. 



Areoda LEACH, CJirysoplwrcb DEJ., Pelidnota MAC L., Rutela 

 MAC L., Macraspis MAC L., Chasmodia MAC L., and some other 

 sub-genera, on which see BURMEISTER Entom. Handb. iv. 1, 

 pp. 330 429. 



Sp. Rutela chrysochlora LATE., Chrysophora chrysochlora DEJ., HUMBOLDT 

 et BONPLAND, Observ. de Zool. et d'Anal. comp. i. PI. xv. figs, i, 2, 

 GUERIN Iconogr., Ins. PI. 24, fig. i ; Peru ; hind feet in male long, with 

 broad thighs, and tibiae terminating in a triangular process turned inwards. 

 Without having this process the hind feet in the male of Scardbceus macro- 

 pus FRANCILLON, SHAW, Chrysophora macropa DEJ., are in like manner 

 very strongly developed. 



Rutela lineola LATR., Scardbceus (Surinamus and) lineola L., Cetonia 

 lineola FABR., VOET Coleopt. I. Tab. ix. fig. 81; Surinam, Brazils. Rutela 

 splendida SCHOENH., Cetonia splendida F., VOET Coleopt. i. Tab. viu. 

 fig. 62, &c. 



All the species of this genus are exotic ; the most are found in South 

 America ; they have usually lively colours or a metallic lustre. 



Anomala MEGERLE (Euchlora MAC L.). Mandibles with ex- 

 ternal margin rotundate, entire. Antennae with nine joints. (Other 

 characters of the preceding genus ; feet less thick, with external 

 claw of four anterior feet mostly bifid.) 



Sp. Anomala Frischii (Melol. Frischii and Mel. Julii FABR.), PANZER 

 DeutscU. Ins. Heft 97, Tab. 9, 10, EATZEBURG Forst-Ins. i. Tab. 3, 

 fig. 10 ; 4'" to 6'" long, green with usually yellowish brown elytra : it 

 differs, however, much in colour ; see the accurate description and syno- 

 nymy in ERICHSON Naturgesch. der Ins. Deutschl., Coleopt. in. 1847, 

 s. 625 627. Anomala horticola, Scarab, horticola L., Melol. horticola F., 

 (Anisoplia horticola MEG., DE"J., Catal. des Coleopt. 30 e"dit.), PANZER 

 Deutschl. Ins. Heft 47, Tab. 15, EATZEBURG Forst-Ins. i. Tab. 3, fig. 9 ; ! 

 4'" long, hairy, with brown-red shield-covers, steel-coloured blue thorax ; 

 very common. 



