160 CETOXlIN-t. 



cJ. The abdoineu is thinly sprinkled with simple punctures 

 along the middle. 



$. The abdomen is quite smooth along the middle except the 

 last segment, which is thickly punctured. The hind tarsi are 

 shorter than those o£ the male. 



Length 22-25 mm. ; breadth 12-5-14-5 mm. 



Punjab : Miirree, Dehra Gazi Khan ; Turkestan ; Caspian 

 Sea. 



141. Protaetia neglecta. 



Cetonia neglecta, Ilope^^ Grays Zool. Miscellatit/, 1831, p. 24. 

 Cetonia dalman, G. ^- P. {nee C. dalmaimi, Hope), Monoyr. Cet. 



1833, p. 195, pi. 35, tig. 2. 

 ProtJBtia puncticollis, Barm., Handb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 470 ; Schaum, 



Ann. Sue. Ent. Franee, 1849, p. 277. 



Bronzy, with the legs and lower surface sometimes metalhc 

 green or red, the pronotum, scutelluui and elytra covered with a 

 brown-velvety bloom, the pronotum decorated, except along the 

 middle hue, with minute and closely-set greyish spots, the elytra 

 ^vith a fine greyish tracery, which is absent from the region around 

 the scutellura. The surface is often denuded of the opaque 

 clothing and then becomes entirely bronzy and moderately shining. 



The form is compact and convex. The head is entirely coarsely 

 punctured, with the front margin reflexed and minutely excised in 

 the middle. T\\e pronotum is coarsely and closely puuctured, with 

 a smooth middle hue, on each side of which there are slight de- 

 pressions ; the sides are sinuous, the posterior angles moderately 

 well marked, and the base deeply excised before the scutellum. 

 The scutelhim is unpunctured and rather long. The elytra are very 

 strongly and rugosely punctured, except in the region adjacent to 

 the scutellum, which is distinctly but not strongly punctured. The 

 apical angles are not produced. The j)?/r/u^u(»i is closely granu- 

 lated and minutely setose. The sternal j^^'ocess is very short and 

 broad, and the metasternum is smooth in the middle, h\it coarsely 

 rugose and hairy at the side. The ler/s are rather short, the/>oa^ 

 tibia armed with three rather sharp teeth, and the middle and 

 liind tibia; fringed with yellow hairs. 



cJ . The abdomen is sparingly punctured and thinly hairy at 

 the sides, and the spines of the hind tibia) are short and sharp. 



2 . The abdomen is extremely smooth except the last segment, 

 which is strongly punctured. Tlie spurs of the hind tibia? are long 

 and blunt. 



Length 20-22 mm. ; breadth 11-12 mm. 



Punjab : Simla Hills, Phagu, Theog, Matiaua (8000-8700 ft., 

 April, May, June); United Peovinces : Naini Tal ; Nepal; 

 Assam : ISIanipur. 



Type in the British ^Museum ; that of dalman, G. & P., in the 

 Oxford Museum. 



