PROT.ETIA. 157 



the base deeply excised in the middle. The scutellam is long, very 

 blunt at the apex, and sparingly punctured. The elytra are 

 coarsely punctured, rugosely at the sides, deeply striated in the 

 posterior depression, moderately sinuated behind the shoulders and 

 acutely spinose at the apical angles. The pyfjidium is opaque, 

 shghtly rugose and setose, the metasternuni smooth in the middle 

 and thickly hairy at the sides, and the abdomen coarsely punctured 

 and setose all over. The mesosternal process is very short and 

 transverse, and the front tibia is armed with two feeble teeth. 



Length 16-5-18 mm. ; breadth 8*5-9"5 mm, 



Tenasseeim. 



Type in the British Museum. 



I have seen only two specimens, collected by Colonels Bingham 

 and Davidson (one of them now in Mr. O. E. Janson's collection). 

 The species differs from P. acuminata, F., by its distinctly coppery 

 or brassy colour, close puncturation above and below and the 

 bideutate front tibise. 



137. Protaetia terrosa. 



Cetonia terrosa, G. l^ P., Monogr. Cet. 1833, p. 264, pi. 51, fig. 1 ; 



Jansoti, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1901, p. 183. 

 Anoplochilus terrosus, Burin., Handh. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 509. 

 Eumimimetica terrosa, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. xxv 1881, 



p. 264. 

 Cetonia irrorata, Wallace* Trans. Ent. Soc. Land (3) iv 1868 



p. 588 (n. syn.). ' 



Pseudanthracophora striatipennis, Kraatz* Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 



1898, p. 407. 



Black and shining above and below, with the sides of the pro- 

 notum, the elytra (more thickly at the sides and apices) and the 

 sides of the pygidium and sternum irregularly sprinkled with 

 white, and with frequently one or two rows of white spots on 

 each side of the abdomen. 



The form is shortly oval and rather convex, the mesosternal 

 process and the sides of the sternum are clothed with yellow hairs, 

 and the legs are short. The head is densely rugose, with the 

 clyjieal margin rounded in front, feebly reflexed and armed with 

 two short, sharp teeth. The prothorax is strongly and rather 

 evenly punctured, rounded at the sides and deeply excised before 

 the scutellum. The scutellum is short, broad in front and 

 moderately blunt behind, with some punctures in the anterior 

 angles. The elytra are coarsely and rugosely punctured in rows, 

 with the lateral margins gently sinuated and the apical angles not 

 produced. The pygidium and the sides of the metasternum are 

 rugose and the abdomen is very smooth. The mesostei^nal process is 

 very short and trans\'erse and thickly hairy. The front tibice are 

 strongly three-toothed, the hind tibice thinly fringed, and all the 

 tarsi short. 



