148 CETOXiiN-i:. 



The xcuteUwn is rather narrow aud pointed. The eJ)jtra are finely 

 and irregularly punctured, gently sinuated at the sides, with the 

 sutural margins elevated behind and acute at the apices. The 

 jii/gidium is finely rugosely strigose, the metastenium very coarsely 

 punctured at the sides, and the abdomen almost smooth. The 

 mesostenud process is rather broad, the /ro)i< tibia armed with three 

 short teeth and the middle and liind tibice are fringed with close 

 short reddish hairs. The tarsi are short and thick. 



I have seen only female examples. 



Length 22-23 mm. ; breadth 13 mm. 



Burma : Moulmeiu, Tun-za-lin (August). 



Type in the British Museum. 



1 26. Protaetia andamanarum. 



Protictia andamanarum, Ja/ison, Cist. Ent. ii, 1877, p. 145. 



Black, with the vertex of the head, the pronotum, scutellum 

 and elytra opaque and sooty, and the elyti'a decorated with ir- 

 regular orange-coloured spots, reduced in the male to a few incon- 

 spicuous marks at the outer margins, and in the female consisting 

 of larger patches at the outer margins, a humeral spot or cluster, 

 and two postmedian clusters near the inner margin of each elytron. 



The form is robust aud moderately convex. The chjpeus is 

 rather broad, finely punctured, with the margin curved, feebly 

 reflexed in front, and scarcely notched. The pronotum is sparsely 

 punctured, with the sides sinuated, the posterior angles well- 

 marked, and the base deeply and narrowly excised in the middle. 

 The sadellum is tapering, not very long nor very blunt. The 

 eli/tra are feebly punctured and costate, and not strongly sinuated 

 at the sides. The pi/gidiiim is transversely strigose, the sides of 

 the metasternum are coarsely punctured, aud the abdomen is almost 

 smooth. The mesosternal process is small, moderately transverse 

 and rounded in front. Tlie front tibice are three-toothed, the 

 hind tibia} moderately fringed, and the tarsi rather short. 



In addition to the difference of pattern distinguishing the 

 sexes, the male has the apices of the elyti-a sharply spinose, the 

 uppermost tooth of the front tibia nearly atrophied, the abdomen 

 a little arched and the spurs of the hind tibia sharp. The female 

 has the apical angles of the elytra blunt and the last ventral 

 segment closely punctured. 



Length 20-24 mm.; breadth 11-12*5 mm. 



Andaman Is. 



Tiqie in coll. 0. E. Janson. 



1 27. Protietia whitehousei. 



Cetouiu •whitehousei, Scliaum, 2'rans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, 1848, 

 p. 72, pi. 11, tig. 3. 



Head, legs and lower surface black and shining, pronotum, 



