PEOTiETIA. 139 



lu the Munich Catalogue P. mixta, Y, is quoted as an Indian 

 species. I have examined the type of this from the Copenhagen 

 Museum and find it to be a species only known to occur in 

 Sumatra. The same specimen was the original of Weber's 

 description, published earlier than that of Fabricius, and quoted 

 by the latter. The Munich Catalogue therefore also errs in 

 treating the species as synonymous with our P. fti.sca (mandarina, 

 Weber). 



115. Protaetia cuprea. 



Cetonia cuprea, F., St/st. Ent. 1775, p. 48 ; G. ^- P., Monogr. Cet. 



1833, p. 192, pi. 34, tig. 3. 

 Cetonia liorentina, Herhst, JVotursi/st. Kiif. iii, 1790, p. 210 ; G. ^' P., 



Mono(jr. 1833, p. 191, pi. 34, fig. 2. 

 Cetonia metallica, F., Ent. Syst. i, 2, 1792, p. 128 ; Syst. El. ii, 1801, 



p. 138 ; G. &f P., Monocjr. Cet. 1833, p. 190, pi. 34, fig. 1 ; Reitter, 



Deutsche Ent. Zeitsclir. xxxv, 1891, p. 63. 



Olivaceous-green, brassy or coppery, with the pygidium, lower 

 surface and legs lurid green, red or purple, and sometimes with 

 the head and the extreme edges of the prothorax and elyti-a tinged 

 with the same colour. The prothorax and scutellum are frequently 

 rosy or fiery red. The upper surface is smooth, but not highly 

 glazed, and the lower surface is very sparsely clothed with 

 yellowish hairs. 



The body is moderately stout and not much depressed above. 

 The head is strongly and closely punctured and the clypeus 

 quadrate, with the front margin strongly reflexed and very lightly 

 excised in the middle. The 2^^^onotum is finely (sometimes very 

 finely) and rather uniformly punctured, rather convex, strongly 

 margined and very gently curved at the sides, and narrowly and 

 deeply emarginate in the middle of the base. The scutellum is 

 quite smooth and moderately long and pointed. The elytra have 

 each a well-marked broad depression adjoining the suture upon 

 the posterior half, in which there are fines of horseshoe-shaped 

 impressions. In front of the depressions they are only very 

 minutely punctured, and at the sides more strongly and closely. 

 The lateral margins are gently sinuated behind the shoulders, and 

 the apical angles sharp but not spinose. T\iQ pygid'nnn is finely 

 transversely corrugated, the metasternum less finely corrugated at 

 the sides, and the abdomen almost smooth. The sternal process 

 is flat and transversely oval in shape. The front tibia is armed 

 with three slight sharp teeth, and the Jiind tibia has a fringe of 

 yellow hairs at the inner edge. 



The last ventral segment is finely punctured in the J and 

 rugose in the 2 • 



Length 17-25 mm. ; breadth 9-5-13 mm. 



SiND : Karachi ; Peesia ; Stbia ; Asia Mixor ; Balkan 

 Peninsula; Italy. 



