48 LAMELL1CORNIA. [lloplici. 



HOPLIA, Illiger. 



This genus contains about seventy or eighty species, of which twenty 

 are found in Europe, and the remainder are widely distributed, repre- 

 sentatives occurring in Siberia, China and Hong Kong, India, Madagascar 

 and South Africa, Teneritfe, and North, Central and South America; 

 one species only occurs in Britain, which may be easily known by the 

 long single claw of the posterior tarsi. 



H. philanthuB, Fuss, (argrentea, 01. ; pulverttlenta, F.). Upper 

 surface finely squamulose, thorax clothed sparingly with small pale seine; 

 head black, much narrower than thorax, anterior margin strongly 

 marked; thorax black, narrower than elytra, contracted in front and 

 produced in middle of base, together with head finely, closely, and 

 somewhat rugosely punctured; scutellum rounded; elytra depressed, 

 rather uneven, finely and rugosely punctured; pygidium exposed, 

 closely punctured; legs rather stout, anterior and intermediate pairs with 

 unequal claws, posterior pair with a single claw. L. 6^-8 mm. 



Male entirely dark or dark with fuscous or reddish-brown or reddish- 

 testaceous elytra; scales on upper surface more scanty and cinereous, on 

 the under surface thick and bluish; antennae and legs black; female 

 thicker and narrower, with the elytra always reddish-brown or reddish-tes- 

 taceous; scales on .up per surface, especially of thorax, greenish, or greenish- 

 cinereous, on the under-side distinctly greenish; antennae and legs red. 



On flowering shrubs and plants ; local, but usually common where it occurs ; 

 Battersea Fields, Tooting, Woking, Chatham, Lee, West Wiekhani, Sheerness, 

 Purley, Highgate, Tonbridge, Ac.; Fegwell Bay; Dover; Glanvilles Wootton ; New 

 Forest; Isle of Wight; Southampton; Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset; Swansea; 

 Forest of Dean ; Bewdiey Forest; Knowle, near Birmingham; Ely; Newmarket ; 

 Notts; Manchester; Southport; Northumberland and Durham district, "abundant 

 on our western border and about Lauercost" (Bold); it has not, however, been 

 recorded from Scotland ; it probably occurs in Ireland in several localities. 



HOBXAXiOPXiXA, Stephens. 



This genus contains thirteen or fourteen species, of which seven are 

 found in Europe, and the remainder occur in Siberia, Algeria, Abyssinia, 

 and Asia Minor; they are allied to Serica, but are less elongate and more 

 depressed, and may be known by the shorter anterior tibiae and different 

 pubescence; the single British species is one of the most local and rare 

 of our Lamellicornia. 



H. ruricola, F. Oblong, rather depressed, head and thorax black, 

 elytra reddish, with the suture and margins sharply and rather broadly 

 black; head thickly punctured, with anterior margin raised, antennae 

 reddish with club often darker; thorax transverse, gradually rounded and 

 narrowed in front, strongly and not very thickly punctured, pilose, 



