THE LAMEIXTCORNIA, OR “ CHAFERS.” 15 !) 
spicuous in the male. This insect, cylindrical in 
shape, with long and slender (but stiff) legs, of a light 
testaceous-red colour with opaline or silky reflections, 
is nocturnal in its habits ; and may be found in 
spiders’ webs, sand-pits, water-troughs, &c., frequently 
“ coming to grief ” on account of its delicate structure. 
I have seen a red ant dragging a disabled but living 
specimen along the bottom of a sand-pit. 
The little Eomaloplia, shorter and darker in colour, 
is diurnal in its habits, and may be found (but rarely) 
settled in flowers near woods. It has shorter front 
tarsi, and is clothed with more decided pubescence. 
The Hoplvina are here represented by a single 
genus and species, Eoplia philanthus, a small, robust, 
dark-coloured insect, with scanty bluish-silvery scales, 
remarkable for its habit of flying for only a short time 
in the hottest part of the day, and then hiding in 
flowers, &c. This family is subject to considerable 
variations in form and structure, but has the labrum 
indistinct; the club of the antennas three-jointed; 
the anterior coxae projecting ; the hooks of the tarsi 
unequal ; and the ventral segments soldered together, 
the sixth being generally indistinct. The genus Eoplia 
has the hooks of the posterior tarsi simple ; and the 
males are generally narrower than the females, with 
one tooth less in the anterior tibias, which are more 
slender, and the hinder legs stronger, with more 
robust hooks to the tarsi. E. philanthus has ten 
joints to the antennas. 
T1k> Rutelina, apart from the greater divergence 
of the last abdominal spiracles, differ chiefly from the 
Melolontliina (to which they are allied) in always 
having the ligula horny and soldered to the mentum ; 
the mandibles horny ; the labrum distinct, and free 
