132 CETONIIN.i:. 



Genus CETONIA. 



Cetonia, Fab., Syst. Eitt. i, 1775, p. 52; Reitter, Deutsche Ent. 



Zeitschr. 1891, p. 51. 

 Cetonia, subgenus Cetonia, Mulsant, Col. de France, Lamell. 1871, 



p. 069. 

 Eucetonia, Schoch, Mitth. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. ix, 1894, p. 211. 



Type, Scarahceus av.ratus, L. (the Eose-beetle of Great Britain). 



Range. Europe and Continental Asia. 



Clypeus bilobed, not reflexed in front. Head with two pits 

 between the eyes, separated by a narrow carina. Prothorax 

 rather triangular, strongly excised before the scutellum. Scutellum 

 rather narrow, blunt at the apex. Lateral margins of the elytra 

 strongly sinuated and apical angles sharp. Pygidium granulated. 

 Sternal process moderately long, shghtly compressed, blunt, and 

 directed a little downwards. Front tibite tridentate ; middle and 

 hind tibiae fringed along the inner edge, the middle ones armed 

 with a strong tooth at the outer edge, the hind ones bluntly digi- 

 tated at the extremity. 



S . Spur of the hind tibia slight and sharp. 

 $ . Inner spur of the hind tibia stout and broadly truncate. 

 Last ventral segment more closely punctured than in tlie S • 



Key to the Species. 



1 (4) Ventral segments not spotted at the 



posterior angles. 



2 (3) Pronotum decorated with two white lines. ifM-sowt, We3tw.,p. 132. 



3 (2) Pronotum without white lines rutilans, Jans., p. 133. 



4(1) Four anterior ventral segments with lateral 



white spots. 



5 (6) Anterior ventral segments almost smooth, tem-pw^r/sjsp.n.jp. 134. 



6 (5) Anterior ventral segments with numerous 



crescentie impressions rhododendri, Gestro, 



[p. 134. 



110. Cetonia bensoni. 



Protpetia bensoni, Westw.,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. vol. v, 1849, 

 p. 145, pi. 16, tig. 3. 



Bright coppexy or golden-green, with the pronotum, scutellum 

 and elytra deep green and opaque, and the head, legs and lower 

 surface shining ; decorated with whitish markings, consisting of 

 an oblique line on each side of the pronotum, not reaching the 

 front or hind margin and sometimes interrupted ; a broken trans- 

 verse line upon each elytron adjoining the outer margin con- 

 siderably behind the middle, another behind the last, adjoining 

 the inner margin, a spot near the apical angle and a few others 

 scattered irregularly ; a small spot near each lateral angle of the 

 pygidium, and an iticonspicuous line of spots along each side of 

 the abdomen beneath. 



