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CETOXIIX,!:. 



in frout of the antennal orbits, with the front margin reflexed and 

 entire. The jJ^'otJio rax is very much narrowed in front, with the 

 posterior angles rounded and the base deeply emarginate in the 

 middle. The scutdlum is unpunctured, and rather long and narrow. 

 The diitra have each a moderate costa on the posterior half, the 

 sides are strongly sinuated and the apical angles spinose. The 

 jpygidium is slightly rugose, the sides of the metasternum and 

 abdomen coarsely rugose and the middle very feebly punctured 

 and shining. The sternal process is small, scarcely produced, and 

 transverse. The front tibia is armed with three feeble teeth and 

 the liind tibia' have a moderately thick yellow fringe. 



S . The lateral teeth of the front tibia are almost obsolete and 

 the last ventral segment is lightly punctured. 



$ . The last A'entral segment is rugosely punctured and the 

 hind tarsi are very short. 



Length 17-19 mm,; breadth 9-5-10"5 mm, 



Assam : Shillong, Kliasi Hills. 



2^lipe in the British Museum, 



The only female specimen I have seen is in Mr, O, E. Janson's 

 collection. There is a second male specimen in the collection of 

 Mr. H, E. Andrewes, to whom the British Museum is indebted 

 for the type. 



134. ProtsBtia fusca. 



Cetonia fusca, Jlerbst, Xatursi/st. Kitfer, iii, 1790, p. 257, pi, 32, 



tig, 4 ; Voet, Cat. Col. pi. iv, fig, ."W, 

 Cetonia mandarina, Weber (part.), Obs. Ent. 1801, p, 68. 

 Protootia maiidarinea, Burvi., Ilaiulb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 481; Schaum, 



Ann. Sac. Ent. Erance, 1849, p. 278, 

 Cetonia atomaria, is,* -Sy.s/. Ekmth. ii, 1801, p. l.')3, 

 Cetonia fictilis, Neiom.,^ Ent. Maij. v, 1838, p. 169. 



Coppery, with the head, legs and lower surface shining, and 

 the pronotum, scutellum, elytra and py- 

 gidium opaque chocolate-colour, and finely 

 and irregularly s])riukled with yellow 

 points, most closely aggregated at the 

 sides of tlie pronotum and in two masses 

 at the outer edge of each elytron before 

 and behind the middle. The head, legs, 

 sides of the pronotum, sternunj, abdomen 

 and the pygidium are moderately thickly 

 clothed with decumbent yellow seta\ 



The form is moderately short and con- 

 vex. The chipeus is broad, closely punc- 

 tured and very feebly emarginate in the 

 middle of the front margin. The 'pro- 

 notum beai's scattered punctures, close at the sides and containing 

 setffi ; it is rather short, broad behind and deeply emarginate at the 

 middle of the hind margin. The scntcUurn is short aiul very bluntly 



Fig. 34. — Frotatiafitsca. 



