152 CETONim^. 



131. ProtsBtia regalis. 



Protsetia regalis, Blanch., Liste Cet. Mus. Paris, 1842, p. 1 ; Bunn., 



Havdb. Ent. iii. 1842, p. 490. 

 Cetonia withilli, Bainbr.,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. 1842, p. 218. 

 Progastor regalis, Thorns., Le Nat. 1880, p. 278. 

 Protsetia regalis, var. horni, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1900, 



p. 144. 



Coppery or almost black, with the legs and lower surface shining 

 and the upper surface and pj-gidium opaque ; decorated with pale 

 yellow spots placed as follows : — a pair placed transversely near 

 the middle of the pronotum, one near the middle of each lateral 

 margin and one at each hind angle, some or all of these being 

 occasionally absent ; one on each elytron a little before the middle 

 of the inner margin, another behind it, a third in the apical 

 angle, and three at the outer margin alternating with the three 

 preceding ; three on each side of the pygidium and a double row 

 on each side of the metasternum and abdomen, some of these 

 frequently absent. 



This is the largest known species of Frotcetia, stout and convex, 

 and with rather short legs. The Jiead 

 is rather small, very lightly punctured, 

 with the front margin straight and 

 narrowly reflexed. The pronotum is 

 finely punctured, short, narrow in front 

 and broad behind, with the lateral mar- 

 gins slightly curved, the hind angles 

 moderately distinct, and the basal mar- 

 gin strongly excised in the middle. 

 The scntelhim is unpunctured, not very 

 long nor very blunt at the apex. The 

 elytra are finely striate-punctate on the 



„. oo r> ^ .• 7- disc and irregularly punctured exter- 



Fis. 32.— Protatta regalis. ,, i .i ? • , , i 



nally, and then- apical angles are sharp. 



The 2:)ygidkim is finely transversely strigose and the metastenmm 



coarsely strigose at the sides. The mesostemal 2^^'ocess is flat, 



nearly circular in shape and slightly prominent. The front tibia 



is armed with two sharp but short teeth, and the hind tibia is 



digitate at the end and fringed at the inner margin with short 



yellow hairs. 



cJ . The apical angles of the elytra are spinose, and the abdomen 

 is moderately punctured beneath. 



$ . The apical angles of the elytra are sharp but not spinose, 

 and the abdomen is unpunctured, exeoi)t the last segment, whicli 

 is densely punctured. 



Length 26-28 mm.; breadth 1-4-16 mm. 



Bombay ; Ceylon : Kandy. 



Tyjie in the Paris Museum ; that of ivithilli in the Oxford 

 Museum. 



