118 CETONIDT-S. 



glistening pearly-blue markings: — the lateral margins of the pro- 

 notum and two median and two basal spots, which frequently fuse 

 with the borders, leaving only a median cross-shaped black mark ; 

 the mesosternal epimera and parts of the scutellum ; the lateral 

 parts of the elytra (continued round the apical margins but some- 

 times interrupted), and a median and a subapical spot upon each 

 (sometimes united to the borders). The greater part of tlie 

 pygidium, the sides of the sternum, a row of minute spots on each 

 side of the abdomen, and a large patch upon each hind femur are 

 also of the same colour. 



This is a very small species, elongate-oval and very convex. 

 The head is densely granulated, with the sides of the dypevs 

 strongly rounded, the front margin refiexed and the front angles 

 rather produced. The irronotam is strongly punctured, rather 

 narrow in front, with the posterior angles little indicated and the 

 base regulai-ly curved and verj^ gently emargiuate in the middle. 

 The scutellum is short and rather blunt, and the elytra are strongly 

 punctured in rows, well sinuated at the sides and rather obtuse 

 at the apical angles. The ptfjidium is smooth, finely and sparsely 

 punctured, the sides of the metastenium strongly, and those of 

 the abdomen slightly, punctured and pubescent. The mesostenium 

 is eetose, little dilated before the coxae and not produced, aud the 

 front tibia is armed with three strong teeth. 



c5' . The abdomen is broadly channelled and the hind tibiae and 

 tarsi bear a long but not dense fringe. 



2 . All the tarsi are distinctly shorter than in the 6 . 



Length 12 mm.; breadth 5"5 mm. 



Bombay : Poena. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



Genus GYMNOPHANA, nov. 



Type, Cetonia oatesi, Gestro. 



liange. That of the type. 



Porm depressed and not very elongate, with very long and slender 

 legs. Clypeus quadrate, with the front margin broadly excised 

 and not reflexed. Prothorax pear-shaped, narrow in front, with 

 the curvature of the sides regular and continued uninterruptedly 

 round the base, which is scarcely excised in the middle. Scutellum 

 rather long and pointed. Elytra strongly sinuated at the outer 

 margins and spinose at the apical angles. Sternal process very 

 short and transversely dilated. 



S . Legs very slender, the front tibiae not toothed, the hind 

 tibiae truncate at the end, and all the tarsi considerably longer than 

 the tibiae, the middle ones about twice as long. 



The female is not yet known. 



Although of very distinctive form, this new genus is nearly 

 related to GJycyphana, from which it differs in having the pro- 



