170 CETOxim^. 



each elytron adorned with a large, rather transverse, red patch at 

 the middle. The white markings are as usiiah 



Assam : Khasi Hills, Shilloug. 



Through ail its extraordinary changes of colour and form this 

 species is recognizable by the setae upon its upper surface and the 

 finely strigose lateral boi'ders of the prothorax. 



Genus STALAGMOSOMA. 



Stalagmosoma, Burm., Handh. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 808 : Janson, Notes 



Leyd. Mm. x, 1888, p. 109. 

 Stalagniopygus, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1882, p. 66. 



Type, Cetonia alhella, Pallas. 



Range. Western Asia and Xubia. 



Small, ovate, moderately elongate, convex and rather smooth. 

 Clypeus a little longer than it is broad, elliptical, with the margin 

 gently reflexed, strongly and uniformly curved in front, and not 

 contracted in front of the eyes. Prothorax narrow in front, 

 with the posterior angles slightly indicated and the base broadly 

 emarginate. Scutellum short, not very blunt at the apex. Elytra 

 strongly siiuiated at the sides behind the shoulders and very 

 sharply pointed at the apical angles. Legs not long; front tibia 

 armed with three sharp teeth; middle and hind tibioe acutely- 

 digitate at the end and fringed with long hairs at the inner edge. 

 Mesosternum straight in front and not at all produced. 



c? . The abdomen is not excavated. The uppermost tooth of 

 the front tibia is rather more distant from the second tooth than 

 in the female. 



Only one species of this Palsearctic genus crosses the Indian 

 frontier. 



149. Stalagmosoma albella. 



Scaraba^us albelhis, Pallas, Heis, i, 2, 1771, Aj)j)., p. 462 ; Icones 



Ins. 1781, p. 17, pi. A, fig. 18. 

 Stalagmosoma albella, Burm., Hcmdh. Ent. iii. 1842, pp. 807, 



808; Schumn, Ayvx. Soc. Ent. France, 1849, p. 260. 

 Cetonia alterna, G. ^- P., Mcmo(/r. Ent. 1833, p. 211, pi. .38, fig. 5. 

 Cetonia koriui, Fald., Nouv. Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. iv, 1835, 



p. 302, pi. 10, tig. 8. 

 Cetonia lepida. Fald., Bull. Soc. iJ/osc. ix, 1 836, p. 373, pi. 7, fig. 4. 



Shining black above and below, the legs and anterior part 

 of the body beneath clothed with short yello\\ish seta? and 

 decorated with white markings, consisting of a broad border on 

 each side of the pronotum, six spots on each elytron, viz. two 

 placed obliquely at the shoulder, two obliquely behind the middle, 

 one at the apical margin and one a little before it, near the 

 suture, a patch on each side of the pygidium, and small spots 

 at the sides of the hind coxa) and the ventral segments. 



