MELOLONTHIDiE. — ANISOPLTA. 227 



Genus CCIX. — Anisoplia, Koppe. 



Antenna nine-jointed, with the basal joint robust, abruptly clavate, pilose; the 

 second short, subglobose : the two following elongate, cylindric ; the next 

 shorter, subtransverse; the sixth very short, transverse; the remainder forming 

 a triphyllous, elongate, slender club. Palpi with the terminal joint distinctly 

 longer than the others, glabrous : head small, suborbicular ; clypeus considerably 

 produced, narrowed towards the apex, which is much reflexed and rounded : 

 thorax subtransverse, its lateral margins subsinuated, its base slightly pro- 

 duced in the middle, and not so broad as that of the elytra, which are de- 

 pressed : four anterior tarsi with the claws very unequal, one being very 

 slender and short, undivided, the other much stouter, bifid ; posterior slightly 

 unequal, undivided. 



The nasiform clypeus of this genus at once serves as an external 

 indication of its distinction from Anomala, from which it also differs 

 by having the terminal joint of the palpi distinctly larger than the 

 others, the thorax subtransverse, its base not being so wide as that 

 of the elytra, which are depressed. 



Sp. 1. Agricola. Plate xix. f. 1. — Nigro-ceneus, thorace villoso, elytris lividis, 



limbo fascidcjue arcuatd nigris. (Long. corp. 7 lin.) 

 Sc. Agricola. Linnef — Don. xi. pi. 390. f. 1. — An. Agricola. Steph. Catal. 



117. No. 1195. 



Deep brassy-black ; head and thorax slightly villose, punctate ; the latter de- 

 pressed on the hinder margin near the angles, and with a small round fovea 

 near the lateral ones : elytra glabrous, livid, with the suture, margins, a sub- 

 quadrate common spot surrounding the scutellum, and an abbreviated trans- 

 verse fascia a little behind the middle, black : body beneath clothed with 

 short, cinereous, down : legs and antenna:- black. 



A rare insect in Britain : all the known examples have been 

 found, I believe, on the coasts of South Wales. " Taken on the 

 coast of Caermarthenshire." — Donovan, I. c. 



has been questioned : but as Fabricius states that it feeds also upon the rose, 

 that objection becomes untenable, and the mere fact of being rare is no criterion 

 to judge from, as amongst many other similar examples may be instanced the 

 rediscovery of Chrysomela cerealis in comparative plenty upon the Welsh 

 mountains in July last, by W. D. Fox, Esq. ; an insect supposed to feed upon 

 the cork tree, being frequently taken in cork-cutters' shops in London, and 

 consequently expunged from the British list on account of that fact, combined 

 with its scarcity ; though Fabricius says that it is found upon broom. 



