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minute spot close to the front margin of each elytron, a large 

 irregular patch about tlie middle of each, adjoiniug the outer 

 margin and sending two lobes towards tlie inner margin, a small 

 irregular patch in the apical angle and several minute spots 

 between the last and the median patch, and an irregular patch (some- 

 times broken up) on each side of the pygidium. The sides of the 

 sternum are also white and there are two rows of spots along each 

 side of the abdomen. 



The shape is short and broad, rather depressed and very little 

 narrowed behind. The head is strongly punctured, with the front 

 margin rounded, reflexed, and scarcely perceptibly notched. The 

 pronotam is strongly punctured, with a smooth line down the 

 middle. It is narrow in front and rapidly widens to the base, 

 which is strongly emarginate in the middle. The scatellum is 

 unpunctured, rather short, and broad at the base. The ehjtra are 

 finely and thinly punctured anteriorly, and more strongly and 

 rugosely posteriorly. The lateral margins are moderately sinuated 

 behind the shoulders and the apical angles are produced. The 

 2ii/[/idiu7n is rugose and finely setose, the metasternum smooth in 

 the middle and rugose and thinly pubescent at the sides, and the 

 abdomen sparsely punctured and pubescent. The frord tibia is 

 armed with three rather feeble teeth and the middle and hind 

 tibice fringed with yellow hairs. The sternal process is very short 

 and broad in front, 



S . The abdomen is well arched and the apical angles of the 

 elytra are strongly spinose. 



Length 14-20 mm. ; breadth 8-10-5 mm, 



Bengal : Dacca, Calcutta (October), Chapra ; Madeas : 

 Mysore ; Maueitius. 



T)jpe (of C. macidata) in the British Museum : the type of 

 aurichalcea formerly in the same collection has now disappeared, 



121. Protaetia peregrina. 



Cetonia peregrina, Herbst, Nattirsf/st. Kiif. iii, 1790, p. 236, pi. 30, 



fig. 4. 

 Cetonia difformis, F., Syst. Eletit. ii, 1801, p. 154 ; G. ^- P., Mon. 



Cet. 1833, p. 200, pi. 36, fig. 2. 

 Anatona atrocoerulea, Schoc/i,* Mitth. Schweiz. Ent. Gesells. i, 



1897, p. 50 ; Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1897, p. 402. 



Blue-black, smooth and very shining above and beneath, with 

 an irregular white patch on each side of the prothorax, another 

 upon the anterior part of each elytron (extending backwards to a 

 little beyond the middle, where it usually sends a branch towards 

 the suture), a third in the apical angle, one at each side of the 

 pygidium, and a minute spot at the posterior angle of each ventral 

 segment. 



The body is very globose and compact. The head is rugosely 

 punctured, acutely bidentate in front, with the angles reflexed. 

 The pronotum is very finely and sparingly punctured, with the 



