114 CETONIIN^. 



Keij to the Species. 



1 (4) Upper surface opaque and spotted. [p. 114. 



2 (3) Grey, brown or red, -svith yellow markings, stillata, Newm., 



3 (2) Black, "with white markings alboffuttata, Burm., 



[p. 115. 



4 (1) Upper surface shining, not spotted castanoptera, Burm., 



[p. 116. 



90. Anatona stillata. 



Cetonia stillata, Keicm.* Ent. May. v, 1838, p. 169. 

 Cetonia lignea, Blanch., Liste Cet. Miis. Paris, 1842, p. 8. 

 Anatona tlavoguttata, Burm.,* Handb. Eiit. iii, 1842, p. 604; 



RecU., HiiyeVs Kaschmir, iv, 2, 1848, p. 580, pi. 25, fig. 2. 

 Anatona pilicollis, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1898, p. 223. 



Black, with the elytra red or chocolate-coloured and the upper 

 surface, except the head, covered with a greyish or tawuy hloom 

 and decorated with yellow markings as follows : a border on each 

 side of the prothorax, and two discoidal and two basal spots ; a 

 small spot near the shoulder of each elytron, another near the 

 middle of the inner margin, three small patches adjoining the 

 outer margin, a fourth occupying the apical angle, and a spot a 

 little in front of the last. A patch on each side of the pygidium 

 (sometimes divided into two), the mesosternal epimera,part of the 

 hind femora, and the sides of the metasternum and abdomen are 

 similarly decorated. 



The form is short, oval and convex. The head is granulated 

 and clothed on the vertex with long tawny hairs. The j'l'onottim 

 is rather strongly punctured, with the sides strongly curved, the 

 front angles acute and the hind angles almost obsolete. The base 

 is gently curved and very feebly emarginate before the scuiellum, 

 which is short and triangular. The eh/tra are coarsely punctate- 

 striate, sinuated behind the shoulders and sharply angular, but 

 not spinose, at the apices. The pijr/idiwn is finely punctured and 

 sparingly clothed with yellow hair.s. The metasternum is smooth 

 in the middle and thickly hairy at the sides, and the abdomen is 

 sparingly punctured and setose. 



c5' . The abdomen is a little arched and nearly smooth, and the 

 hind tarsi are rather longer than those of the female. 



Leiifjth 11-14 mm. ; breadth 6-8 mm. 



Punjab : Campbellpur, Kangra Valley (Dudgeon), Kulu ; Cen- 

 TiiAL India : Mhow ; Bombay : Kanara, Khaudesh (3500 ft.) ; 

 Madras : Bangalore. 



Tyj^e in the British INTuseum ; that of lignea in the Paris 

 Museum; oi favoynttata in the Oxford Museum ; oi inlicoUis in 

 the German Entomological National Museum. 



The wide distribution of this insect is very remarkable. It 

 varies considerably in size and in the colour of the elytra, and in 

 its markings tends to form local races, the typical southern form 

 usually having the spots larger and the thoracic margin broader 



