142 CETONIIN.i;. 



minute punctures near the margins ; it is very narrow in front 

 and broad behind, with the sides nearly straiglit, but feebly angu- 

 lated before the middle, and the hind angles ^\•ell marked. The 

 scideUam is unpunctured and very blunt, and the eh/tra are very 

 shining, with minute scattered punctures near the sides and broad 

 sliallow depressions beyond the middle ; the apical angles are 

 sharp but scarcely produced. The pyrjidium is punctured all over 

 and has a shallow depression on each side. The metasternum is 

 smooth in the middle and rugosely punctured at the sides, and 

 the abdomen almost smooth. The sternal j'^'ocess is very short and 

 broad and the legs are stout, the front tibia being armed with 

 three very short but sharp teeth, and all the tarsi shoi-t and thick. 



cJ . The teeth of the front tibia are very feeble and the 

 abdomen is a little hollowed beneath. 



Length 19-21 mm. ; breadth 10-12 mm. 



Nepal ; Assam : Sibsagar (Atkriison). 



T;/pe in the British Museum ; that of ignipes in the Geneva 

 Museum. 



In the type specimen (but in no other that I have seen) there 

 are two very minute white marginal spots behind the shoulder of 

 each elytron and one at the posterior margin. 



118. Protaetia montana. 



Cetonia moutana, Nunfr., Berlin. Eat. Zcltschr. xxxvi, 1892, 

 p. 371. 



Bright metallic green and very smooth, with the tibiie and tarsi 

 fiery red, and the elytra decorated with two narrow transverse 

 white stripes beyond the middle. 



The form is very robust and convex. The head is punctured 

 all over and the clgpeal margin retlexed and nearly straight in 

 front. The j^i'onotian is smooth, except for large scattered punc- 

 tures near the front and sides. It is narrow in front and the 

 sides and base are strongly siuuated. The scutellum is un- 

 punctured and rather long. Tiie chjtra are unjjunctured, with 

 the apical angles sharp but not produced, and the pggidium is 

 shallowly rugose. The mdastern.um is smooth in the middle, 

 coarsely punctured and strigose at the sides and thinly pubescent, 

 and the abdomen is unpunctured. The sternal process is verv short 

 and broad. The legs are rather short and stout, the froiit tibia 

 armed with three short and sharp teeth, and the middle and hind 

 tibial provided with rather close fringes at the inner edge. 



cJ . The abdomen is slightly channelled beneath and the teeth 

 of the front tibia are very feeble. 



Length '11 mm. ; breadth II-Lj-.j mm. 



SiKKiM {Col. Bingham) ; Bengal : Phoobsering Lebong (Pusa 

 Coll.). 



Tgpe in coll. Xoufried. 



