484 CLASS INSECTA. 



EucHLORA, Macl. Anomala, Meg. Dej. 



Having no sternal projection, in which one of the hooks of 

 the four anterior tarsi is bifid in the males, and in which the 

 body is gibbous, with the hood round and transverse.* 



Lepisia, Lepel. and Serv. 



Presenting no longer a sternal horn, and distinct from the 

 preceding by their four anterior tarsi, the two hooks of which 

 are bifid. 



Tlie Haplides, or phyllophagi of our third and last divi- 

 sion, have the mandibles small, depressed, and, as it were, 

 divided longitudinally into two parts, the internal one of 

 which is membranous, and the other corneous ; tlie superior 

 extremity presents no sensible denticulations. The body is 

 short, depressed, and broad, with the elytra narrowed pos- 

 teriorly at the external side. The labrum is concealed, or 

 but little seen ;-|- the jaws are often but small denticulations. 

 The two last tarsi have usually but a single hook ; in those 

 in which all have two (DicraniaJ, the first articulation of 

 the anterior tarsi is prolonged inferiorly, and presents at tlie 

 internal side a strong liooked tooth. 



M. Leon Dufour remarks, that the digestive canal of 

 Hoplia is much less long than that of Melolontha, and that 

 it approaches more to that of Cetonia. The cliylific ventricle 

 is smooth and flexuous. The narrow intestine is less short 



* The M. viridis, bicolor errans, marginata, cyanocephala, vitis, Julii, 

 Frischii, holosericea, aurata, &c. of Fabricius. See Macleay, Hor. Entom. 

 I. part I. p. 147. The genus Minwla, of Mr. Kirby, appears to me to 

 approach much to that of Euchlora, but not having seen any individual, 

 I confine myself to this simple indication. 



-f- In the last preceding sub-genera this piece, seen in front, only pre- 

 sents an edge, linear, transverse, entire, or but slightly emarginate in its 

 middle. 



