150 CETONiix-i;. 



and the Jiincl tihicn aud tarsi have eacli a thin fringe of moderately 

 long hairs. 



The last ventral segment is smooth in the S and coarsely 

 punctured in the $ , aud tlie fringe of the hind tarsus of the J is 

 long. 



Length 12-13 mm.; breadth 0-7 mm. 



Madras : Mysore, Bangalore. 



Tiipe in the German Entomological National Museura. 



129. Protaetia cupripes. 



Cetonia cupripes, Wied.* Germars Mar;. Ent. \x, 1821, p. 146. 

 Protsetia cupripes, Bxrm., Handh. Ent. iii. 1842, p. 483. 

 Cetonia germari, G. &f P.,* Monoijr. Cet. 1833, p. 202, pi. 36, fig. 5. 

 Cetonia rufocuprea, G. 4" P. op. cit. p. 205, pi. 37, tip. 4. 

 Pseudanatona rufocuprea, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitscltr. 1895, 

 p. 112. 



Shining coppery-red, with the prouotum, scutellum and elytra 

 light chestnut colour and opaque, and decorated with whitish 

 markings as follows : — a marginal line (irregular internally) on 

 each side of the pronotum, a pair of minute spots at the front 

 margin and another pair at the hind margin ; the mesosternal 

 epimera ; a minute transverse spot at the outer margin of each 

 elytron behind the shoulder, another near the middle of the inner 

 margin, and two transverse posterior oands, interrupted and 

 zigzagged. There are also irregular and inconstant marldugs 

 upon the pygidium and the sides of the sternum and abdominal 

 segments. 



This is a small species, compact in shape and with short legs, 

 which, together with the lower surface, head, pygidium and sides 

 of the pronotum, are clothed with pale yellowish sette. The head 

 is coarsely punctured, with the chipeal marf/in strongly reflexed 

 aud emarginate in front (very slightly in the $ , aud strongly in 

 the c? ). The prothorax is ratlier narrow in front, with the lateral 

 margins angulated before the middle and the hind angles mode- 

 rately well-marked ; the base is strongly emarginate before the 

 scutellum, which is short and blunt. The eh/traare feebly striated, 

 their sides strongly sinuated behind the shoulders aud the apical 

 angles spinose. The jyi/e/idiinn is setose and transversely strigose, 

 the metasterman rather thickly clothed with yellow hairs at the 

 sides and smooth in the middle, and the abdomen very scantily 

 punctured and setose at the sides. The mesosternal 2^>'ocess is very 

 small, ti-ansverse and fringed witli yellow setje. The legs are 

 setose, the front tibice bidentate and the Jiind tibice rather thickly 

 fringed. 



S . The clypeal margin is rather produced in front and almost 

 bidentate, and the abdomen is arched and almost smooth. 



2 . The last ventral segment is rugosely punctured. 



