PBOTvETIA, 145 



sides geutly curved and the base very feebly einarginate in the 

 middle. The sciitellum is short, triangular, moderately blunt and 

 xmpunctured. The eli/tm are strongly but sparingly punctured, 

 some of the punctures forming longitudinal I'ows. The sutural 

 angles are sharp but not at all produced, and the lateral margins 

 are geutly sinuated. The pijgidiiun is shining but rather rugose. 

 The mesosternal process is very short and broad, with a fringe of 

 yellowish hairs beneath ; the metasteraum is coarsely rugose and 

 thinly hairy at the sides, and the abdomen is unpunctured. The 

 front tibial are tridentate and the liind tibim and tarsi bear a thiu, 

 but rather long, fringe of pale hairs. 



S ■ The abdomen is a little arched and entirely smooth and the 

 fringe of the hind tarsus is long. 



2 . The last ventral segment is coarsely punctured. 



Length 13-16 mm. ; breadth 7-8'5 ram. 



Bombay : Poena ; Ben^gal : Murshidabad ; Madras : Ganjam, 

 Berhampur, Mysore. 



Type not traced ; that of difformis at Copenhagen and of atro- 

 co'rulea at the Polytechnikum in Ziirich. 



In the Munich Catalogue the locality Java is given for this 

 species but without any authority. 



122. Protaetia impavida. 



Potosia impavida, Janson, Cist. Ent. ii, 1879, p. o38 ; iii, 1884, 



p. 110. 

 Cetonia dohrni, Har., C. R. Sac, Ent. Belg. 1880 p. 3. 



Shining blue-black with minute white markings, variable in 

 number but usually consisting principally of a median anterior 

 spot, three transverse marks near the outer margin, and three 

 near the inner margin of each elytron (the latter upon the 

 posterior half), a minute spot on each side of the pygidium, and 

 a row on each side of the sternum and abdomen. 



The body is stout and rather convex. The head is strongly 

 and rather evenly punctured, with the clypeus rather long, reflexe'd 

 and feebly bilobed in front. The prothorax is very finely punc- 

 tured on the disc and more strongly at the sides, with the hind 

 angles rounded and the base strongly emarginate in the middle. 

 The scuteUian is not long and is unpunctured except in the 

 anterior angles. The elytra are closely set with large crescentic 

 punctures except in the region of the scutellum, where the punc- 

 tures are fine and sparse. The apical angles are right angles and 

 not produced. The pygidium and propygidium are finely rugose, 

 and the latter is sharply angular in the middle of the posterior 

 margin. The sides of the metasternum are coarsely rugose and 

 thinly clothed with short yellow hairs, and the abdomen is almost 

 smooth. The sternal process is transverse and feebly produced. 

 The front tibia is armed with three acute teeth. 



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