112 CETONIIN.i;. 



sternal process is bluntly conical, and the front tibicv are acutely 

 tridentate. 



Lenr/ih 24 mm. 



Ceylon. 



Type in the German Entomological National Museum. 



88. Anthracophora bufo. 



Anthracophora bufo, Arrotv* Arm. May. Nat. Hist. (7) xix, 1907, 

 p. 353. 



Deep red-brown, irregularly speckled above and below with 

 yellow markings ; opaque and velvety, except at the middle of th© 

 prothorax, metasternum and abdomen and a 

 stroug costa on the anterior half of each 

 elytron. 



The form is ovate and depressed. The 

 clypeus is broad, entire and strongly punc- 

 tured. The jyrotliorax is strongly but not 

 closely punctured in the middle, very coarsely 

 and rugosely at the sides, with the lateral 

 margins distinctly angulated at the middle, 

 and strongly sinuated behind. ThescuieUum 

 Fig. 2."). is rather short, punctured, opaque and varie- 



Anthmcophora bufo. gated. The elytra are irregularly punctured 

 and striated, and each has a smooth curved 

 costa on the basal half. The pygidium is rugose, and the meta- 

 sternum and abdomen are strongly punctured and shining in the 

 middle, but opaque and closely sculptured with crescent- shaped 

 impressions at the sides. The legs are very short, opaque, and 

 decorated like the body, and there are two very short teeth on 

 the front tibia. The sternal process is short but rather sharply 

 conical. 



Lewjtli 10 mm. ; breadth 8"5 mm. 



Assam : Sylhet. 



Type in the British Museum. 



89. Anthracophora dalmanni. 



Cetonia dalmanni, Hope,'':' Grm/s Zool. Miscell. 1831, p. 24. 

 Anthracophora bohcmaui, Westiu.^^ Trans. Ent. Soc. Land, v, 1849, 

 p. 14U, pi. It), tig. 7. 



Black, with the clypeus, legs and lower surfiice shining, the 

 upper surface and pygidium opaque ; the elytra decorated with 

 irregular brick-red spots, scattered and inconspicuous in front 

 and confluent behind the middle, where they form a more or 

 less extensive apical patch. The pygidium and the sides of 

 the abdominal segments are partly or entirely of the same 

 colour. 



