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widened behind, of a greyish- Mack colour, very dull; forehead thickly 

 punctured; antennae reddish; thorax slightly narrower than elytra, 

 narrowed in front, anterior angles projecting, upper surface uneven, sides 

 fringed with thickly set yellowish setae; elytra with very shallow flat 

 striae which are obsoletely notched by cross punctures, interstices 

 jilU'matfly furnished with larger and smaller bunches of very short 

 brownish-yellow or yellowish setae; legs blackish or reddish-brown. 

 -6 mm. 



Sandy places; in dry carcasec, bones, bides, Ac.; rather local, but not uncommon 

 in several midland and southern localities, but very rare further north ; London 

 district, rather common, Blackhcath, Duhvich, Mickleham, Coombe Wood, Forest 

 Hill, Tilgate Forest, Tollbridge; Brandon, Suffolk; Hastings; Glanvilles 

 Woottoii (common in stock-doves' nests inside old apple trees) ; New Forest ; South- 

 ampton ; Braunston Burrows, Devon ; Bristol ; Swansea ; Bewdley ; Tewkesbury ; 

 Scarborough ; Stretford and Dunham Park, Manchester ; not recorded from the 

 Northmnberliiud and Durham district ; Scotland, very rare, Sol way district, " Jardine 

 Hull, Murray's Cat." 



SCARAB^ID-E MELOLONTHINI. 



As will be seen from the description before given (p. 9), this 

 group is intermediate between the other two groups into which the Sca- 

 rabaeidae are here divided. Dr. Horn ard Dr. Leconte again divide the 

 group into the Laparostict and Pleurostict Melolonthini, according to 

 the position of the abdominal spiracles; as, however, none of the species 

 belonging to the former of these groups are found in Britain, they need 

 not here be discussed. A considerable number of genera and a large 

 number of species are found in the group, but they are, with the 

 exception of one or two genera, more characteristic of tropical than 

 temperate climates; nineteen genera occur in Europe, containing about 

 two hundred species; of these five genera, represented by only seven 

 species, are found in Britain, and only two genera and three species have 

 been recorded from Scotland. 



I. Tibia} with one spur, which is sometimes obsolete; pos- 

 terior tarsi with a single claw HOPLIA, ///. 



II. Intermediate and posterior tibia? with two spurs; pos- 

 terior tarsi with two equal claws. 



i. Antennae with the club composed of three lamellae. 



1. Anterior tibia) short, with joints 2-4 scarcely longer 



than broad HOMAXOPLIA, Steph. 



2. All the tibiae long, with the joints elongate. 



A. Upper surface with fine and very short pubescence ; 



scutellum elongate triangular SEHICI, AfcL. 



B. Upper surface with long hirtoee pubescence, es- 

 pecially on thorax and scutellum ; scutellum some- 

 what rounded RBIZOTBOOCS, Lair. 



ii. Antennas with the club composed of seven lamella* 

 in the male and six iu the female MELOIOMIIA. /'. 



