PROT.'ETIA, 



155 



rounded at the apex. The elytra beai' scattered punctures at 

 the sides and apex, and the punctures contain minute setse. 

 The margins are gently siuuated behind the shoulders and the 

 apical angles are produced into long spines. The middle of the 

 meta sternum and abdomen is quite smooth and bare, and the sides 

 rugose and setose. The sternal process is very short and broad ; 

 and the legs are short, the front tibia armed with three teeth, 

 the uppermost very slight, and the hind tibia closely fringed with 

 yellow hairs at the inner edge. 



d . The abdomen is well arched, and the hind tibioe have a 

 longer and thicker fringe than in the female. 



$ . The last abdominal segment is rugose. 



Length 14-16 mm. ; breadth 7-9 mm. 



Bengal: Calcutta, Chapra ; Assam : Cachar ; Buema : Bhamo, 

 Mandalay, Eangoon ; Tenasserim ; Siam ; tS. China ; Malay 

 Peninsula; Malay Archipelago ; Polynesia ; N. Queensland ; 

 Mauritius. 



Type in the Berlin Museum ; that of mandarina lost ; of 

 atomaria in the Copenhagen Museum ; of Jictilis in the British 

 Museum. 



The type of P.fusca cannot be identified with absolute certainty. 

 Prof. Kolbe, of the Berlin Museum, informs me that a specimen, 

 perhaps the type, in that collection belongs to this species, whose 

 identity I think may fairly be accepted from Herbst's figure, and 

 its better original in Voet's Catalogue. The type of P. mandarina, 

 Weber, which should be in the Copenhagen Museum, is lost, but 

 a specimen f i*om AVestermann's collection preserved there as repre- 

 senting the species belongs to P. acuminata, E., and Weber's 

 description appears to me to have been drawn up from that species 

 and the present one jointly. 



This is one of the most widely-distributed of all the Cetoniin^. 

 Mr. H. ]Sr. Ridley, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Singapore, tells 

 me that its larvae are very injurious to Cannas and other cultivated 

 plants, upon whose roots they feed. In Queensland the beetles 

 have been found to attack the nests of the stingless bee, Trigona, 

 no doubt for the sake of the stored honey. 



135. ProtaBtia acuminata. 



Cetonia acumiuata, F.* Si/st. Ent. 1775, p. 50 ; G. S)- P., Monogr. 



Cet. 1833, p. 203, pi. 37, fi?- 1. 

 Protfetiaacmiiinata, Biirm., Handh. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 479 ; Schaum, 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1847, p. 277. 

 Oetcnia niarmorea, Weber* Ohserv. Ent. 1801, p. 69. 

 Cetonia marmorata, F.* Syst. Elcut. ii, 1801, p. 154. 



Deep bronzy-black, with the clypeus, legs, lower surface, the 

 scutellum aud the elevated parts of the elytra shining, and the 

 rest of the upper surface sooty ; thinly clothed with yellow setse 

 at the sides, above and beneath, and speckled above with pale 

 yellow, which is absent from the scutellum and the middle of the 



