^0 CETOXIIN-E. 



tarsi, very smooth and glossy, but rather strongly punctured and 

 the punctures pigmented with black. 



The body is rather broad and convex. 

 The chjpeus is I'ectangular, rather broader 

 than long, coarsely punctured and without 

 median carina or processes of any kind, 

 the margins straight and the angles fairly 

 sharp. The iJi-Oiiotum is strongly nar- 

 rowed in front, strongly but not densely 

 punctured at the sides and very finely or 

 not at all punctured in the middle. The 

 scutdluhi is not long, moderately sharp at 

 the apex, and unpunctured. The eli/tm 

 are strongly striate-punctate, with the 

 intervals between the strise rather convex, 

 Yi„ 2''> '"-"^^ ^^^ sides are rather rugose posteriorly. 



Euchloropus Icetas, male. The pi/;jidlitm is transversely strigose, and 

 the metastermun, hind coxcp, and abdomen 

 are strongly but sparingly punctured at the sides and smooth in 

 the middle. 



In addition to the sexual distinctions described above the 

 pronotum is more triangular and more narro\\ed in front in 

 the (S , and the pygidium is less closely strigose. 

 Len;jth li)-22 mm.; breadth 11-12 ram. 



Bengal: Calcutta: Assam: Silhet; BLaniA: Karen-ni; Malay 

 Pe>insula; Jaya; &c. 



Type lost ; that of s)/lhetica in coll. li. Oberthiir. 

 After a careful comparison of a long series, I am not able to 

 recognise the differences said by Thomson to exist between 

 ^'xamples from N. India and Java. 



■ Genus HETERORRHINA. 



lleterorrhiiia, H'estic, Arcana Ent. i, 1842, p. 132. 

 Coryphoceia, Burm., Handb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 220. 



Type, Cetonia nif/ritarsis, Hope. 



liange. Tropical Asia and Africa. 



Form variable, but generally elongate, tapering and depressed, 

 with rather slender legs ; very shining and free from hair above 

 and beneath. Clypeus not largo nor dilated, with the front 

 margin reflexed and (except in the d of //. mtttahiJis) gently 

 toothed or notched, and the forehead in the 2 , or both st^xes, 

 bearing a small prominence which is free in front. Prothorax 

 more or less triangular, with the posterior angles well-marked 

 but not produced, and the base excised before the scutellum. 

 Scutellum rather acute at the apex. Sternal process long and 

 slender, except in //. mutabilis and dispar. Pygidium broad and 

 flat, not hairy. 



The front tibial are bidentate in the female, and generally 

 slender and unarmed in the male. When teeth are present in 

 both sexes, the upper one is feebler in tlie male. 



