156 CETONIINiE. 



posterior part of the pronotuin, but forms a more or less indefinite 

 arcuate transverse band behind the middle of the elytra. The 

 sides of the pygidium, metasternum and abdomen are generally 

 adorned with patches of the same colour. 



The body is moderately elongate and depressed. The head is 

 densely punctured and has a slight posterior longitudinal carina, 

 the front margin of the dypeus being reflexed and entire. The 

 pronohim is coarsely and thickly punctured, with a smooth middle 

 Hue and two densely punctured impressions on each side of it, the 

 posterior pair near the basal margin. The latter is deeply, but not 

 broadly, emarginate in the middle, and the lateral margins are 

 sinuated. The scuteUum is very blunt and only punctured in the 

 anterior angles. The elytra are distinctly and irregularly punc- 

 tured and each has a strongly marked costa upon its posterior half. 

 The sutural margins are strongly raised and the apical angles 

 sharply produced. T\\q 'propygidium is pointed and ihe pyrjidhim 

 finely rugose. The metasternum is coarsely rugose at the sides and 

 the ahdomen almost smooth. The sternal process is very short and 

 broad. The front tibia is armed with three very short but sharp 

 teeth and the hind tibia has a thin yellow fringe. 



(S . The abdomen, including the last segment, is sparsely punc- 

 tured beneath, the spurs of the hind tibiae are short and sharp and 

 the teeth of the front tibia very feeble. 



$ . The last ventral segment is very thickly punctured and the 

 spurs of the hind tibia are long and blunt. 



Lenyth 14-19 mm.; breadth 7-10*5 mm. 



Burma : N. Khyen Hills, Bhamo ; Andaman Is. ; Nicobae Is. ; 

 Malay Peninsula ; Java ; Sumatba ; Boeneo ; etc. 



Typ)e in the British Museum ; type of marmorea in the Copen- 

 hagen Museum, and marmorata was described from the same 

 specimen. 



This species seems to be particularly abundant in the Andaman 

 Is., where, besides the typical form, there is a variety, larger in 

 size, in which the pale markings are more evenly distributed and 

 the median band less distinct. 



136. Protaetia hinghami, sp. n. 



Dull coppery above and beneath and decorated with an indefinite 

 ochreous tracery, including a double series of small spots (about 

 six) on each side of the pronotum, four irregular transverse bauds 

 upon the elytra and the greater part of the pygidium. 



Moderately elongate and depressed, clothed with fine scattered 

 setse above and beneath (which are rather closer at the sides) and 

 rather thickly hairy at the sides of the metasternum. The head'xs 

 rugosely punctured, w ith the clypeus small, the front margin entire, 

 gently curved and reflexed. The pronotuin is vei-y strongly 

 j)unctured all over, except upon the posterior half of the middle 

 line; the sides are bisinuated, the hind angles well-marked and 



