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Genus GLYCOSIA. 

 Glycosia, Schoch, Ent. Nachr. 1896, p. 80. 



Ttpe, Cetonia tricolor, Oliv. 



Mange. India and the Malayan Eegion. 



Form flattened, rather broad at the shoulders. Head rather 

 small, with the clypeus bilobed and not reflexed at the margin. 

 Prothorax short, narrow in front and broad at the base, with the 

 hind angles well marked, and the base narrowly and abruptly 

 emarginate in the middle. Scutellura small, not very blunt at the 

 apex. Elytra strongly sinuated behind the shoulders. Sternal 

 process prominent, rather compressed and generally directed 

 obliquely downwards. Legs moderately slender, the front tibia 

 armed with three acute teeth and the hind tibia not digitate at 

 the extremity. 



cf . The prothorax is broader at the base than in the other sex, 

 and the spurs of the hind tibiae are more slender and acute. 



Key to tJie Species. 



1 (4) Sternal process vertical in front. 



2 (3) Pronotum opaque, with red margin . . tricolor, Oliv., p. 129. 



3 (2) Pronotum shining, black hiplagiata, Arrow, p. 130. 



4 (1) Sternal process produced forwards . . hictifera, Fairm., p. 131. 



107. Glycosia tricolor. 



Cetonia tricolor, Oliv., Ent. i, 6, 1789, p. 88, pi. 12, fig. 116 ; G. ^' P., 



Monogr. Cet. 1833, p. 245, pi. 46, fig. 4. 

 Glycypbaua tricolor, Burm., Handb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 346. 

 Glycosia plagiata, Schoch, Ent. Nachr. 1896, p. 86 ; Kraatz, 



Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1896, p. 376. 



Black, with the head, legs and lower surface shining, and the 

 prothorax, scutellum, elytra and pygidium opaque ; the pygidium, 

 mesosternal epimera and lateral margins of the pronotum (some- 

 times also the hind margin, except in the middle) blood-red ; each 



elytron decorated near the 

 middle with a large pale 

 yellow patch, irregularly 

 triangular in shape, the 

 base resting upon the outer 

 margin and the apex bent 

 obliquely backwards and 

 nearly reaching the inner 

 margin. There is some- 

 times a Hne of white spots 

 on each side of the abdomen 

 beneath. 



F\g.m.-Glycosia tricolor, The form is yery de- 



and diagrammatic lateral view. pressed, with the Sides of 



the elytra rather straight 

 and narrowing slightly to the extremity. The head is strongly 



