loo CETOXIIX.E. 



The last ventral segment is lightly punctured in the cJ and 

 rugose iu the $ . 



Lemjtli 13-16 ram. ; breadth 7-8"5 mm. 



Deccan ; Bombay: Belgaum, Surat ; Kathiawae: Gogo ; 

 Central India : Mhow ; Bengal : Chapra. 



Type not traced ; that of irrorata in coll. Janson ; of striatl- 

 ■pennis in the German Entomological National Museum. 



This species has been taken upon the flowers of cotton. It was 

 wrongly attributed to the Philippine Is. by Wallace. 



138. Protastia coenosa. 



Anoplocheila cteiiosa, B'eshc.,*' Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, 1849, 



p. UG, pi. IG, tig. 4. 

 AnnplocLeila brunneoaenea, Wesfic* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, 



1849, p. 147, pi. 16, tig. 5 (u. syn.). 



Coppery, clothed above and below with yellowish hairs, except at 

 the middle of the metasternum and abdomen ; the upper surface 

 subopaque, and the elytra and pygidium sprinkled irregularly with 

 minute yellow spots, which are closer at the sides and apex of the 

 elytra and upon the pygidium. There is also a row of small 

 yellow spots on each side of the abdomen. 



The form is shortly oval, and rather globose and convex. The 

 Jiead and 2>''otho rax are rugosely punctured and densely pubescent. 

 The ch/peus is short, with the margin reflexed and a little notched 

 in front. The iironotum is strongly curved at the sides, with the 

 hind angles not well-marked and the base moderately emarginate 

 in the middle. The scuteUiua is short, broad at the base and 

 moderately blunt at the apex. The elijtra have rows of strongly 

 impressed annular punctures, the sides are gently sinuatedandthe 

 apical angles rather blunt. The pycjidium and the sides of the 

 metasternum are rugose and the abdomen almost smooth. The 

 mesosternal process is small, fringed at the end and very little 

 dilated before the coxae. The front tibice are strongly three- 

 toothed and the kind tibice bear a rather long, but not tliick, fringe 

 of hairs. The tarsi are very short. 



The last ventral segment of the $ is densely punctured. That 

 of the 6 is feebly punctured and tlie clypeal margin is more 

 strongly reflexed. 



Lencjth 12-5-15 mm. ; breadth 7-8 mm. 



Punjab : Simla Hills (8700 ft., May). 



Types of ccenosa and brunneocvnea m the Oxford Museum. 



139. Protaetia squainipennis. 



Protii'tia squamipLMinis, L'urm., Ilandb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 478. 

 Eucetonia magnitica, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1898, p. 15 

 (n. syn.). 



Brilliant metallic crimson above and beneath, and clothed with 

 erect yellow scaly setce, the posterior median part of the pronotura, 



