PROT^TIA. 151 



Length 14-16 mm. ; hreadtli 7-7'o mm. 



Madras : Mysore ; Ceylox : Wellawaya {MitscKke). 



Type in the Copenhagen University Museum ; that of germari 

 in the Oxford Museum. 



Dr. Ivraatz, in the paper quoted above, has mentioned Cetonia 

 cupripes, germari and rufocuprea as three distinct species, but the 

 types of the first and second, now before me, are identical and 

 undoubtedly belong to the species dealt with under the third name 

 by Dr. Kraatz. 



130. Protaetia inanis. 



Cetonia inanis,* Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Load. (3) iv, 1868, p. 580. 

 Cetonia inanis, var. cuprea, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Geneva, (2) x, 1891, 

 p. 851. 



Uniform coppery or metallic green, with the back of the bead, 

 the pronotum, scutellum and elytra opaque. 



This is a large species, short, stout and not much depressed, 

 with short legs. The liead is finely and not closely punctured, 

 and the clgpeus moderately narrow, rounded in front, with the 

 front margin feebly reflexed and not notched. The pronotum is 

 finely punctured in the middle and coarsely at the sides, the hind 

 angles are moderately indicated and the base strongly emarginate 

 in the middle. The scutellum is unpunctured and not long. The 

 elytra have iucomplete rows of punctures on the disc and are 

 rugose at the sides and apices, with the apical angles sharp. The 

 pygidium is finely transversely strigose, the metasternum coarsely 

 rugulose at the sides, and the abdomen almost smooth. The sternal 

 process is very short and broad. The hind tibice are densely digi- 

 tated at the end and shortly fringed at the inner edge, and all the 

 tarsi are short and thick. 



J . The front tibia has the upper tooth very feeble, the apical 

 angles of the elytra are rather spinose, and the last two ventral 

 segments are punctured at the sides. 



5 . The front tibia is feebly bidentate, the apical angles of the 

 elytra are sharp, but not spinose, and the last ventral segment is 

 closely punctured all over. 



Length 26 mm. ; breadth 15 mm. 



SiKKiM : Darjiling ; Assam : Khasi Hills ; Burma : Karen 

 Hills ; Penang ; Nias I. ; Java. 



T//^je in the British Museum. 



Malayan examples of this species appear to be generally green, 

 while the known Indian specimens are copper-coloured, and this 

 phase is called by Dr. Gestro var. cuprea. Insufficient specimens 

 liave been examined, however, to determine to what extent the 

 colour is constant. 



