GYMXOPIIANA. 



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thorax strongly narrowed from behind forwards and scarcely at all 

 emarginate before the scutellum, in the unarmed front tibisa of 

 the male, and the very long and slender tarsi. 



95. G-ymnopliana oatesi. 



Cetonia oatesi, Ge&tro* Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) x, 1891, p. 848. 



Black, with the pronotum, scutellum and elytra opaque, and 

 decorated with white or pale yellow markings as follows :— a 

 border at each side of the pronotum and a pair of minute spots at 



the middle ; an irregular patch 

 beyond the middle of each elytron, 

 adjoining the lateral margin and 

 sending a short process towards the 

 inner margin, and an apical border, 

 slightly dilated at the suture ; three 

 irregular spots on each side of the 

 pygidium ; the mesosternal epimera ; 

 the sides of the sternum, hind coxae 

 and abdomen, and patches upon the 

 middle and hind femora. 



The body is slightly depressed, 

 not very elongate and scarcely 

 narrowed behind. The eyes are very 

 prominent, the Jiead rugose, with 

 the vertex hairy and the chjpeus 

 rather flat, long and narrow, the 

 sides rather straight, and the auterior 

 edge broadly emarginate and scarcely 

 reflexed. The surface of the pro- 

 notum, scutellum and elytra is very smooth and not perceptibly 

 punctured. The pronotum is very narrow in front and i-atber 

 elevated in the middle, the sides are rather straight in front 

 and strongly, almost semicircularly, rounded behind, the hind 

 angles completely obliterated and the base very feebly emarginate 

 in the middle. The pygidium is finely rugose, and the metastemum 

 and abdomen are very smooth in the middle and thinly clothed 

 with whitish hairs at the sides. 



S . The front tibiae are rather broad, slightly sinuated at the 

 end externally but scarcely toothed, the middle tibiae are very 

 short, and all the tarsi, especially those of the front and middle 

 legs, are very long and slender. The apical angles of the elytra 

 are very strongly spinose. The abdomen is arched. 

 The female is unknown. 

 Length 12*5 mm. ; breadth 6*5 mm. 

 Tenassebim : Tbagata, 1200-1500 ft. (L. Fea ; April). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. 



Fig. 28. 

 Gyynnophana oatesi. 



