222 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Pitchy-brown, villose; clypeus rufo-testaceous, with its reflexed margin brown : 

 vertex pitchy-black, thickly and deeply rugose-punctate, with a longitudinal 

 impressed foveola in the middle anteriorly, and an obsolete transverse in- 

 terrupted carina between the eyes, which are brown : thorax, with the lateral 

 margin obsoletely crenulated and broadly rufo-testaceous, the disc thickly 

 punctured, with a dorsal punctate furrow, densely clothed with pale slightly 

 decumbent hairs : scutellum clothed with a dense flavescent down : elytra 

 shining rufo-testaceous, a little pubescent, somewhat thickly punctate, and 

 rugose towards the suture: exposed segments of the abdomen testaceous, 

 punctulated, with short erect hairs: breast densely clothed with long pale 

 down ; abdomen with short ashy- white hairs : legs pale rufo-testaceous. 



The only example I have seen of this species was taken many- 

 years since by Mr. Chant — in whose collection it is preserved — but 

 he forgets the exact locality, which is probably Derbyshire or 

 Yorkshire. 



Genus CCVI. — Melolontha Audorum. 



Antenna: ten-jointed ; the basal joint elongate, clavate, pilose, robust ; the second 

 slender, also clavate, and shorter than the third, which is of similar form, the 

 remainder, in the male, forming a bent elongate capitulum formed of seven 

 leaves, and in the female a short six-leaved capitulum, the joint preceding 

 which, or the fourth from the base, is short, transverse, with a denti- 

 culation within. Palpi with the last joint oval, rather thickened and 

 slightly acuminated: clypeus entire, slightly reflexed : thorax convex, with the 

 sides rounded ; the angles acute: scutellum rounded: body stout, convex, 

 squamose : elytra shorter than the abdomen, the apex within submucronate : 

 legs slender 3 tarsi moderate ; claws simple, with a tooth at the base. 



The distinctly ten-jointed antennae of Melolontha distinguish 

 the genus from Amphimalla and Phyllopertha, exclusively of other 

 characters, amongst which may be noticed the seven-leaved club 

 of the male antennae, and the six-leaved one of the female : the 

 species devour leaves in the perfect state, and the roots of grass in 

 that of the larva. 



Sp. 1. vulgaris. Ob/onga, convexa, nigro-picea, pnbescens, elytris testaceis, mar- 

 gine concolore, stylo ani sensim angustato. (Long. corp. 10 lin. — 1 unc. 

 2 lin.) 



Sc. Melolontha. Linne. — Donovan, viii. pi. 264. f. 2. — Me. vulgaris. Steph. 

 Catal. 116. No. 1189. 



Titchy-black, densely pubescent: clypeus with the margins ferruginous, re- 

 flexed ; thorax thickly punctured, with the sides rounded, the angles acute, 



