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the scutellum and the middle of the metasternum and abdomen 

 only being bare or nearly bare. There are also rather thickly 

 sprinkled yellow or whitish markings upon the prothorax, elytra 

 (where they form a zigzag longitudinal stripe upon each, with 

 transverse median and apical offshoots), pygidium and the sides of 

 the metasternum, hind coxae and abdomen. 



The form is oval and convex. Tlie head is strongly punctured, 

 with a sharp longitudinal median carina behind and the front 

 margin of the clupeus bilobed and strongly reflexed. The pro- 

 thorax is densely punctured, except along the median line, and 

 rather narrow in front, with the sides* strongly sinuated, the 

 hinder angles well marked, and the base deeply excised before the 

 scutellum. The scutellum is smooth except in the anterior angles. 

 The ehjtra are coarsely and irregularly punctured all over, with a 

 well-marked costa upon each. The pygidium and the sides of the 

 metasternum are rugose and the abdomen is almost smooth. The 

 mesosternal 'process is very short, broad and densely setose, and 

 the front tibia has two acute teeth and a very minute upper one. 



cJ . The clypeus is more strongly bilobed and reflexed and the 

 abdomen a little arched beneath. 



5 . The last ventral segment is coarsely punctured. 



Length 12"5-16 mm. ; breadth 7-9 mm. 



Madras : Bangalore ; Cetlox. 



Type not traced ; that of magnifica in the German Entomo- 

 logical National Museum. 



140. Protaetia MeroglypMca. 



Cetonia hieroglyphica, Menetr., Cat. raiso7ine, 1832, p. 189. 



Bronzy and moderately shining, with the legs sometimes 

 metallic green, and with minute traces of nebulous grey markings 

 above. 



Elongate and rather parallel-sided, with moderately long legs. 

 The head is strongly punctured, with the clypeus rather long and 

 rectangular, the reflexed front margin nearly straight and feebly 

 excised in the middle. The prothorax is coarsely and closely 

 punctured except near the scutellum, with a small depression near 

 the base on each side, and the sides are strongly bisinuated, the 

 hind angles prominent, and the base strongly emarginate in the 

 middle. The scutellum is smooth and the elytra are rugosely 

 punctured except in the neighbourhood of the scutellum, where 

 they are distinctly but not closely punctured. The apical angles 

 aresharp but not produced. ll\ie pygidium is closely transversely 

 strigose, the metasternum smooth in the middle and coarsely rugose 

 and thinly clothed with tawny hairs at the sides, and the abdomen 

 is decorated with large crescent-shaped punctures at the sides. 

 The sternal process is short, broad and rounded in front, t\\Q front 

 tibiae are rather feebly tridentate, and the four posterior tibice 

 fringed with yellow hairs. 



