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pygidium is rugose, the metasternum rugose and hairy, except in 

 the middle, and the abdomen very lightly punctured. The meso- 

 stenial process is vei'y small and slightly transverse, and the middle 

 and Jiind tihue have rather close fringes of pale hairs. 



J . The sides of the prothorax are very divergent and rather 

 straight, the apices of the elytra rather spinose, the abdomen 

 strongly arched and deeply and broadly excavated in the middle, 

 with a median line of white spots in the basal part of the 

 excavation. The front tibiae and tarsi are rather elongated, and 

 the lateral tibial teeth nearly obsolete. The hind tibiae are rather 

 attenuated and curved, the fringe is long and thick at the ex- 

 tremity, and the spurs are short and sharp. 



$ . The puncturation of the whole upper surface is stronger, 

 the sides of the prothorax are more curved, the apical angles of 

 the elytra are not produced, the abdomen is convex beneath, with- 

 out median spots, and the last segment, and sometimes those 

 preceding, are well punctured. The legs are normal, the front 

 tibia is armerl with three short but sharp teeth, and the spurs of 

 the hind tibiae are long and blunt. 



Length 13-22 mm. ; breadth 6-10 mm. 



Bengal : Pusa, Ranchi ; United Provinces : Dehra Dun ; 

 Bombay : Surat, Belgaum ; Madras : Mysore ; Ceylon : Kandy, 

 Peradeniya. 



Type in the British Museum ; that of saundersi in the Oxford 

 Museum. 



A female of this species in the Oxford Museum is of a golden- 

 bronze colour. 



This is the most pecuhar and perhaps the commonest and most 

 generally distributed Indian member of the genus. It is remark- 

 able for the extreme variability in size, which can scarcely be 

 paralleled in the Cetoniin^, and also for the great difference 

 between the sexes. Several of the distinctive features of the male 

 appear quite foreign to the present genus, but the female is quite 

 a normal ProtcHia. 



Mr. jNIaxwell Lefroy records that it is taken at the roots of the 

 Pipal Tree (Eurostigmum rcligiosum) and of Panicum spontaneum. 



Genus OXYCETONIA, nov. 

 Gametis, Burmeister (part.), Handh. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 358. 



Type, Cetonia versicolor, Y. 



Range. Tropical Asia and Mauritius. 



Torm ovate and moderately compact. Clypeus rather long, 

 tapering, cleft at the end and without reflexed margin. Prothorax 

 moderately broad at the base and abruptly excised before the 

 scutellum. 8cutellum short, broad at the base and moderately 

 sharp at the apex. Elytra well sinuated behind the shoulders, 

 with the apical angles sharp but not produced. Mesosternal 

 process short, rounded in front but scarcely dilated. Pront tibia 



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