26 HETEROMEKA. [Lagriiiltv. 



genera and one hundred and thirty species; over one hundred of these 

 are comprised in the two genera Lagria and Statira, the latter of which 

 appears to be confined to the New World ; two genera only, Lagria and 

 Agnathus, are found in Europe, and the latter of these has been added 

 since the publication of Gemminger and Von Harold's catalogue ; of 

 the thirteen European species one only is found in Britain ; in many 

 points they resemble the Tenebrionidse, but differ in having the anterior 

 coxae conical and prominent ; the antennas are 11-jointed, filiform, in- 

 serted under very small oblique frontal ridges ; the thorax is narrower 

 than the elytra, more or less cylindrical ; the elytra are rounded at 

 apex and entirely cover abdomen ; the abdomen has five free ventral 

 segments, of which the first four are more closely connected, a sixth 

 being sometimes visible; the legs are slender, and the penultimate joint 

 of all the tarsi is dilated and bilobed, and clothed beneath with a thick 

 brush of hairs, which gives it a spongy appearance ; the body is pilose. 



XiAG-HXA, Fabricius. 



This genus contains about seventy species, which are widely dis- 

 tributed throughout the Old World from Siberia to the Cape of Good 

 Hope ; the majority, however, occur in hot or tropical countries; the 

 genus is not, apparently, represented in the New World, where its place 

 is taken by Statira ; about a dozen species are found in Europe; the 

 single British species is in many districts exceedingly abundant. 



The larva and pupa of Lagria hirta are described and figured by Schiodte (xi. 

 pp. 526, 531, pi. xiv. 12, 21) ; the larva is moderately broad, the length being about five 

 times as great as the width, parallel-sided, with a very small short head, and the last 

 abdominal segment small, conical and finely bifid at apex; the segments on each side 

 are furnished with tufts of hairs ; the prothorax, which is gradually and slightly nar- 

 rowed in front, is the longest segment, and the second and third abdominal segments 

 are the shortest; the colour is rather light, with a central longitudinal fuscous band 

 on each segment, which is often divided in the centre by a light band, and with a 

 fuscous patch on each side ; on the last two segments the central patch does not reach 

 apex ; the legs are comparatively long. 



The pupa is moderately long, and is chiefly remarkable for the long broad clavate 

 processes which project one on each side from all the abdominal segments except the 

 two last ; the whole surface is hairy. 



Xi. hirta, L. Black, shining, villose, with the elytra pale testaceous, 

 of soft and flexible consistency ; head, together with eyes, broader than 

 thorax in male, about as broad in female, sparingly punctured ; thorax 

 subquadrate, small, much narrower than elytra, with a broad central 

 longitudinal impression, sparingly punctured, often almost smooth in 

 middle ; elytra rather closely, distinctly and subragosely punctured, with 

 faint traces of raised lines. L. 7-9 mm. 



Male narrower, with the last joint of the antennae three times as long 

 as the preceding, and the eyes larger, projecting beyond sides of 

 thorax. 



