PROTiETIA. 



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124. ProtaBtia caudata, sp. n. 



Coppery-red, with the pronotuui, scutellum and elytra opaque 

 and the pygidium, legs and sides of the body beneath clothed witli 

 tawny set®. There are live or six very minute pale spots on each 

 side of the pronotum, similar scattered spots upon the elytra, 

 sometimes rather numerous and sometimes almost absent, one on 

 each side of the pygidium, and a row on each side of the body 

 beneath. 



The body is rather convex and elongate and the pygidium rather 

 narrow and prominent. The clypeus is strongly punctured and 

 its front margin slightly reflexed and scarcely notched. The 

 pronotum is closely punctured, the scutellum rather narrow and 

 rounded at the apex, and the elytra bear strong annular punctures, 

 except in the inner anterior part, with a well-marked longitudinal 

 costa posteriorly. The outer margins are very deeply sinuated 

 behind the shoulders, aud the apical angles sharp but not spinose. 

 ^he pygidium is closely strigose transversely, and the sides of the 

 metasternum and abdomen are coarsely rugose. The sternal process 

 is flat, broad and short. Vae front tibia is armed with three sharp 

 teeth and the middle and hind tibice are closely fringed with 

 yellow hairs at the inner edge. 



I have not seen a male. 



Length 18-21 mm.; breadth 9-11 mm. 



Bhutan : Maria Basti (L. Durel) ; Sikkim : Darjiling, Karsiang 

 {R. P. Bretandeau). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in coll. E. Oberthiir. 



This species is extremely like P. primina, but narrower, with 

 the scutellum blunter and the elytra much more deeply sinuated 

 at the sides. 



The type has been kindly presented to the British Museum by 

 Monsieur Oberthiir. 



125. Protaetia prunina, sp. n. 



Coppery-red, sometimes with the legs and lower surface darker, 

 the upper surface covered with an opaque chocolate-red bloom 

 and decorated with small scattered yellowish spots, generally in- 

 cluding a double row on each side of the pronotum, one before 

 and one behind the middle of the elytral suture on each side, a 

 small oblique intermediate streak adjoining the outer margin, two 

 or three spots near the apex, and five or more near the shoulder. 

 There are also a row of four at the base of the pygidium, several 

 on each side of the sternum, and a single or double row on each 

 side of the abdomen. 



The form is stout and compact and the legs rather short. Th& 

 head is strongly and irregularly punctured, with the anterior 

 margin entire and barely reflexed. The pronotum is finely and 

 regularly punctured, with the lateral margins bisinuated, the hind 

 angles rather prominent and the base deeply excised in the middle. 



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