162 CETOXIIN'JS. 



The form is rather narrow, moderately depressed, and scarcely 

 tapering behind. The head is closely punctured, not carinate uor 

 pitted upon the forehead, with the frojit margin of the chjpeus 

 feebly reflexed and slightly excised in the middle. The proihorax 

 is coarsely punctured, narrow in front, with the sides not much 

 curved. The scutellum is long and not very blunt, ^^\^e elytra are 

 punctate-striate, with slight costse, the sides are not strongly 

 sinuated behind the shoulders and the apical angles are sharp but 

 not spinose. Hhe piigidmm is finely rugose, and the sides of the 

 metasternum and abdomen are rugosely punctured. The sternal 

 process is prominent, narrow, rounded in front but not dilated. 

 The front tibia is armed with three sharp teeth and the liind tibia 

 closely fringed with yellow hairs at the imier edge. 



(S . The abdomen is feebly channelled along the middle and the 

 last segment is very smooth. The fringe upon the hind tibia is 

 thick and the terminal spines are short and slender. 



2 . The last ventral segment is finely punctured and the tibial 

 spines are broad and blunt. 



Lenf/th 20 mm. ; breadth 9-5 mm. 



United Peotixces : Mussoori. 



Ti/p>e not traced ; that of p^perina in the Oxford Museum. 



In the form of the sternal process P. confusa shows an approach 

 to the genus Cetonia, but this part, although not dilated in front, 

 is not laterally compressed, aud the head, pygidium and other 

 features exclude it from that genus. 



144. Protaetia alboguttata. 



Cetonia alboguttata, Vigors,* Zool. Journ. ii, 1826, p. 238, pi. 9, 



fig-. 3 ; Burm., Ilandb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 493. 

 Cetonia saundersi, Bainb.,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ]842, p. 219. 



]\Ietallic green, deep blue or blue-black, with the pronotum, 

 scutellum and elytra opaque, deep blue, and decorated with very 

 conspicuous white spots, generally consisting of a pair upon the 

 clypeus, a pair between the eyes, three at each lateral margin of 

 the prothorax, two upon the disc and two near the basal emargi- 

 narion, three near the inner, and three near the outer, margin of 

 each elytron, and one in each apical angle. There are also patches 

 on each side of the pygidium and sternum, upon the femora, hind 

 coxte and abdomen, which are more developed in the male than in 

 the female. 



The form is elongate-oval and moderately convex, aud the legs 

 are rather long. The ch/pens is long and well punctured, its 

 margins being curved and gently refiexed. The pronotum is 

 strongly punctured, narrow in front and bisinuate at each side, 

 with the postei'ior angles well marked. The scutellum is rather 

 lonf^ and not very blunt at the end. The ehjlra are strongly 

 punctured, gently sinuated at the sides, with a sharp cariua upon 

 the posterior half of each, and the apical angles are sharp. The 



