STALAGMOSOM A . — CUILOLOBA . 



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The Itead is finely and rugosely punctured and the pronohmi 

 rather strongly, but not very closely, punc- 

 tured, with the sides regularly rounded 

 and the base deeply emarginate in the 

 middle. The scuteUum is smooth, broad 

 at the base, not long, and rather blunt at 

 the apex. The eh/tra are deeply sculp- 

 tured, with crescentic impressions in front 

 and at the sides and four striae upon the 

 inner posterior part of each, and rugose 

 at the apices ; their lateral margins are 

 sinuated, the sutural margins elevated, 

 and the apical angles acute. The ijygidium 

 is finely rugose, the metasternwn a little 

 punctured in the middle and coarsely 

 rugose at the sides, and the abdomen 

 almost smooth. 



Length 12-13 mm. ; breadth 6-6"5 mm. 



Punjab : Bannu, Murree ; Turkestan : Peesia ; Aeabia ; 

 Egypt. 



Ty2>e in the Berlin Eoyal Museum. 



Fig. 39. 



Stalagmo^oma albella. 



Genus CHILOLOBA. 



Chiloloba, Bitrm., Hanclb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 501 ; Lacord., Gen. Col. 

 ill, 1856, p. 530. 



Type, Cetonia acuta, Wied. 



Range. Throughout India. 



Body elongate, highly glazed, but more or less clothed, both 

 above and beneath, with yellow hairs. Clypeus produced, narrow, 

 with the middle hne carinate, the sides sloping downwards, the 

 extremity excised, the angles bent upwards and outwards and 

 blunt. Eyes very prominent. Prothorax not very broad behind, 

 with the base deeply excised in the middle and slightly oblique at 

 the sides. ScuteUum long and narrow, with the sides concave 

 and the apex subacute. Elytra deeply sinuated at the sides and 

 strongly spinose at the apices. Sternal process flat and transverse. 

 Eront tibiae tridentate. Mentum very long and narrow, deeply 

 cleft ; palpus with the basal joints small and the terminal joint 

 enlarged. Maxilla short and stout, without terminal tuft, both 

 inner and outer lobes armed internally with numerous closely-set 

 spines. Mandible provided with a rather strong, curved and 

 pointed blade, the inner membranous lobe reduced. Labrum 

 broadly excised in front, with the edges of the emargination 

 incurved. 



S . Abdomen arched and grooved. Eront tarsi considerably 

 longer than those of the $ . 



This very peculiar and aberrant genus consists of only a single 

 species, which, however is exceedingly abundant. 



