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with three points, and that of the latter a curved ridge. The 

 large stout larvae of this beetle live in tan, in dung-heaps, 

 and in hollow trees. The beetle flies in the evening. It is 

 found in most of the countries of Southern Europe. 



Group V. CETONINI. 



Body more or less flattened. Antennae with ten joints, the 



terminal club trilobate. Wing-cases not quite covering the 



abdomen. Claws simple and equal. There are six abdominal 



segments, which are longer, or at least as long as the pro- and 



mesosternum together. They are mostly shining beetles, which 



live on flowers. The larvae live in the ground or in rotting 



plants. 



Genus Cetonia, Fabr. 



Body usually naked, shining, sometimes clothed with fine 

 scattered hairs, or with long thick hair. The pronotum is 

 nearly triangular, very much narrowed in front, concave beyond 

 the large elongated, triangular scutellum. The mesosternum 

 projects in a short, blunt, and sometimes clubbed process in 

 front. The legs are strong and rather thick ; the front tibiae 

 with three teeth on the outer side. They are found on flowers. 

 The larvae live in hollow trees and in the nests of the large 

 wood-ant. 



* G. {Oxythyrea, Muls.) stidica, Linn. (Plate IX., Fig. 7). 

 Wing-cases and pygidium spotted with white. Sides of the 

 sternum and femora clothed with long thick hair. Abdomen 

 with thin, sessile, white hairs, with a row of longitudinal white 

 spots in the male, extending from the first to the fourth 

 segment, but spotless in the female. It is found on flowers in 

 May, but is very rare and doubtfully indigenous in Britain. 



C, {Tropinota, Muls.) hirtella, Linn. (Plate IX., Fig. 8). 

 This species is clothed in a thick and long pubescence. Each 



