136 CETONUN-ai. 



114. ^thiessa "bagdadensis. 



^thiessa bagdadensis, Burm., Handb. Eiit. iii, 1842, p, 414. 

 jEthiessa rugipennis, Burm., I. c. p. 417. 



Cetonia squamosa, Fald. (nee G. 4' -^*-)) JNour. Mem. Soc. Lnp. 

 Moscnii, iv, 1835, p. 301, pi. 10, fig. 7. 



Steel-blue, shining, with slight white marks, forming traces 

 (sometimes absent) of three transverse bars beyond the middle of 

 the elytra, a spot on each side of the pygidium, and a narrow line 

 on each side of the posterior margin of each of the first four 

 abdominal segments. 



The bcidy is moderately elongate. The dypeus is rather long 

 and rugosely punctured. The pronotum is strongly and rather 

 evenly punctured, with the sides gently bisinuated and the hind 

 angles moderately sharp. The scutelliim is smooth, and the elytra 

 are coarsely wrinkled transversely and irregularly pitted with very 

 large annular punctures ; there is a broad depression at the inner 

 posterior half of each elytron. The propyciidium and pygidium 

 are finely transversely strigose, the metasternum coarsely punc- 

 tured in the middle, rugose at the sides and thinly setose, and the 

 abdomen nearly smooth. 



S . The uppermost tooth of the front tibia is distant from the 

 other two and very feeble, the abdomen is strongly arched and 

 excavated, and the last ventral segment, like the rest, almost 

 smooth. 



5 . The clypeus is more rugose, the last ventral segment 

 closely punctured, and the pygidium impressed on each side. 



Length 15-18 mm. ; breadth 8"5-9"5 mm. 



Baluchistan : ^N'ushki District ; Afghanistan ; Persia. 



Genus PROT^TIA. 



Protajtia, Burmeister, Handb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 472. 



Cetonia, subg. Protaetia, Larordaire, Gen. des CoUopt. iii, 18oG, 



p. 530. 

 Cetonia, subg. Potosia, Muls., Col. de France, 1871, p. 609. — Type, 



Cetonia speciosissima, Scop. 

 Oxyperas, T/totns., Le Katuraliste, 1880, p. 278. — Type, Cetonia 



spectabilis, Schaum. 

 Eumimimetica, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr, 1881, p. 264. — 



Type, Cetonia {Anoplochilus) terrosa, G. & P. 

 Pseudanthracophora, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1898, p. 407. — 



Type, Cetonia striatipenuis, Kr. ( =C'. terrosa, G. Sc 1*.). 

 Pseudaplasta, Kraatz, I. c. p. 93. — Type, P. cinerea, Kr. 

 Eucetonia, Kraatz (nee Schoch). 

 Pseudanatona, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1895, p. 112. — Type, 



Cetonia cupripes, AVied. 



Type, Cetonia spectahilis, Schaum (Sumatra). 

 Range. Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. 

 Porm compact, with the legs generally robust. Clypeus simple, 

 more or less reflexed at the front margin and not, or very slightly, 



