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142. ProtaBtia cariana. 



Cetonia cariana, Gestro,* Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) i, 1891, p. 850. 



Bronzy, with the legs and lower surface coppery-red ; the pro- 

 thorax, scutellum, elytra and pygidium clothed with a brown, or 

 olivaceous, velvety bloom ; the prothorax decorated, except along 

 the middle line, with irregularly scattered yellowish spots, and the 

 elytra with a fine tracery which is less diffused than in P. neghcta, 

 tending to segregate in masses adjoining the inner and outer 

 margins. The pygidium is speckled on each side of the middle 

 line, and in the male the ventral segments are also speckled 

 broadly on each side. 



The form is convex and compact. The clypeus is rather finely 

 and evenly punctured, with the front margin feebly reflexed and 

 scarcely perceptibly notched. The pronotum is distinctly and 

 evenly punctured, except along the middle line, it is narrow in 

 front, with the sides feebly augulated in the middle and the base 

 deeply emarginate before the scutellum. The scutellum is long, 

 narrow and unpunctured. The elytra are rather finely and 

 sparingly punctured, with the apical angles not sharp. The 

 pygidium is transversely striolated but not rugose, and the meta- 

 sternum smooth in the middle, but coarsely striolated and hairy at 

 the sides. The sternal process is short and broad. The legs are 

 stout, the front tibia armed with three very feeble teeth, and the 

 middle and hind tihice fringed with long yellowish hairs. 



(S . In addition to the markings upon the abdomen, mentioned 

 above, this sex is distinguishable by the abdomen being feebly 

 punctured, the hind tarsi longer, and the spines of the hind tibiae 

 shorter and sharper. 



5 , The abdomen is extremely smooth and the last segment not 

 thickly punctured as is usual in this group. 



Length 19-25 mm. ; breadth 12-14 mm. 



SiKKiM : Mungphu, Darjiling ; Burma : Karen-ni, Ruby Mines. 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



This species very closely resembles P. neglecta, Hope, but is dis- 

 tinguished by the much less closely punctured upper surface, the 

 not rugose pygidium, the longer hind tarsi, feebly toothed front 

 tibige, and the sexual peculiarities mentioned above. 



143. Protaetia confusa. 



Cetonia confusa, G. ^- P., Monogr. Cet. 1833, p. 266, pi. 51, fig. 4. 

 Protaetia piperina, Westw.,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. y, 1849, p. 144, 

 pi. 16, fig. 2 (n. syn.). 



Smoky-black, not metallic, with the head, legs and lower surface 

 shining, and the prothorax, scutellum, elytra and pygidium opaque ; 

 the prothorax, elytra and pygidium decorated wdth a very fine 

 whitish network or speckling, and the sides of the body beneath 

 with less minute confluent spots. 



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