124 CEToyiix.t. 



100. Glycyphana torquata. 



Cetonia torquata, i\ * S>/st. Eleut. ii, 1801, p. lo7. 



Glycvphaiia torquata, Arrow, A)in. >§• Mar/. Nat. Hist. (7) xix, 



1907, p. 435. 

 ((5) Glycyphana subcincta, Jariso7i* Cist. Enf. ii, 1881, p. C07. 

 Glycypbaua bimacula, Kraatz* Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1804, p. 294. 



Black, opaque above, with the frout of the head, the legs and 

 the lower surface shining; the pronotum broadly bordered with 

 red, which terminates before reaching the front angles and is 

 slightly interrupted before the scutellum. The male has a large 

 lateral yellow patch upon each elytron just behind the middle, and 

 the female two smaller spots placed transversely, anotheranteriorly, 

 consisting of two contiguous spots, and one on each side of the 

 pygidium. The mesosternal epimera and the sides of the sternum 

 and abdomen are also yellow. 



It is elongate, very depressed, and scarcely narrowed behind. 

 The head is closely punctured and strongly notched in front. The 

 protliorax is finely punctured and rather broad and transverse, 

 with the sides strongly rounded, the hind angles obsolete and the 

 base gently siuuated. The scutellum is long and blunt, with curvi- 

 linear sides. The ehjtra are deeply striated, strongly siuuated 

 behind the shotilders, and sharply angular but not spinose at the 

 apical angles. The pyrjidium is finely transversely striated. The 

 metasternu.ii is smooth ni the middle and coarsely strigose at the 

 sides, and the abdomen is moderately punctured. 



I have examined three males and two females, in wliich the 

 markings difl;er sexually in the striking manner described. The 

 types of G. suhcincta, Jans., and G. bimacula, Kr., are both males 

 and exactly agree. The type of Fabricius is identical with a female 

 in the British Museum. 



Type in the Copenhagen Museum ; that of subcincta in coll. 

 O. E. Janson, and of bimacula in the German Entomological 

 National Museum. 



Length 17 mm.; breadth 8'5 mm. 



Andaman Is. 



Fabricius was ignorant of tlie locality from which the specimen 

 he described had come, but the habitat " Java " has since been 

 attaclied to it, perhaps only from the belief that it was the species 

 described from that island as Cetonia binoiata, G. & P. 



101. Glycjrphana nicobarica. 



Glycyphana nicobarica, Janson, Cist. Ent. ii, 1877, p. 144. 



Deep green and opaque above, with the head, legs and lower 

 surface olivaceous and shining, and the pygidium brick-red 

 and opaque ; decorated with pale yellow markings consisting of 

 two minute spots at the back of the head, a narrow marginal line 

 on each side of the prothorax and a pair of discoidal spots 

 (occasionally with an additional pair anteriorly), the mesosternal 



