168 cetoniiNjB. 



behind it, one just behind the shoulder at the outer margin and 

 two posterior to it, two on each side of the pygidiuni, the sides of 

 the sternum, and a double row on each side of the abdomen. 



The body is moderately short and depressed. The head is rather 

 strongly punctured and the clypeus strongly but bluntly bilobed. 

 The 2^''onotum is rather triangular, strongly punctured, with the 

 hind angles traceable and the base strongly emarginate in the middle. 

 The scutellwn is short, broad at the base and not very blunt at 

 the apex. The elytra are coarsely punctate-striate, the pygidium 

 decorated with crescentic impressions, the sides of t\i.e nutasternum 

 coarsely rugose, and the abdomen coarsely and sparingly punctured. 

 The mesosternal process is slightly produced and broad. The legs 

 and the sides of the sternum and abdomen are rather thickly 

 clothed with tawny hairs. 



6 . The abdomen is feeby arched and the apical angles of the 

 elytra are rather spinose. 



Length 15-16 mm ; breadth 8-9 mm. 



Bombay : Kanara ; Madbas : Xilgiri Hills, Shembaganur (near 

 Madura). 



Type in coll. Andrewes. 



This species is very closely related to 0. albopunctata, F., but 

 the head and the pygidium are rather differently sculptured, and 

 the mesosternal process is a little broader. 



148. Oxycetonia jucunda. 



Cetonin iiicuudn, Falderjnunn, Mem. pros, a I' Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. 



ii, 1835, p. 386, pi. 4, lips. 4 & .5. 

 Cetonia prasiiia, Hope* Gray's Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 25. 

 Var. Cetonia sanguinalis, Hope* I. c. ; G. ^ P., Monogr. Get. p. 286, 



pi. 55, fig. 6. 

 Var. Cetonia bealife, G. c^- P., op. cit. p. 282, pi. 54, fig. 8. 

 Cetonia obscura, G. 4" P., op. cit. p. 285. 

 Cetonia viridiobscura, G. ^- P., op. cit. pi. 55, fig. 5. 

 Cetonia goryi, Gxer., Per. Zool. 1840, p. 81; lJelesserf,Souv. Voy.i, 



2, 1843, p. 46 ; Schaum, Atm. Soc. Ent. France, 1844, p. 372. 



Green, olive, red, dark blue or black, opaque above in the fresh 

 condition, clothed thinly above aiid thickly 

 beneath with tawny hairs and setae, and 

 decorated with variable white markings, 

 generally consisting of a discoidal spot and 

 a marginal line on each side of the pro- 

 thorax, a spot at the apex of the scutellum, 

 four at the outer margin and one or two 

 near the inner margin of each elytron, two 

 on each side of the pygidium and a double 

 row on each side of the abdomen. Some 

 .p. „., of these are frequently absent. 



Ox,icctmiaJHcunda, '-^^6 form is slightly elongate and de- 



typical form. pressed. The head is long, densely and 



finely punctured, and the clypeus very 

 bluntly bidentate. The prothora.v is strongly punctured, with 



