172 CETOXllN.F. 



150. Chiloloba acuta. (Plate II, fig. 4.) 



Cetonia acuta, Wied.* Zool. Mag. ii, 1, 1823, p. 87; G. ^- P., 



Momxjr. Cet. 1833, p. 284, pi. .55, fig. 3. 

 Cetonia perplexa, G. c^ P.,* I. c. tig. 4. 

 Chiloloba acuta, Burm., Handb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 503. 



Bright metallic green, sometimes fiery red or deep blue, very 

 smooth and shining, but irregularly punctured, and clothed with 

 yellow hairs, which are long, dense and decumbent upon the 

 sternum and sides of the abdomen, short and erect upon the rest 

 of the body. 



The body is long and a little depressed above and the legs are 

 moderately slender. A fine carina extends from the forehfud to 

 the extremity of the chjpens, which is excised and its angles 

 bluntly hooked, and the head is declivous and finely setose on 

 each side, with longer and closer hairs between the eyes. The 

 pronotum is closely punctured and setose, except along the middle 

 line, but the setae are very short and not conspicuous. The sides 

 are gently curved, the hind angles rounded but moderately 

 prominent, and the base deeply excised before the scutellum. 

 The scutellum and elytra are thinly setose, but the clothing 

 becomes much longer and thicker towards the extremity of the 

 latter. The outer margins are very strongly sinuated behind the 

 shoulders and converge very little from that point, and the inner 

 margins are elevated posteriorly and produced into sharp spines 

 at the apices. The pi/gidiuni is clothed with long hairs, the 

 metastenium smooth in the middle and thickly clothed at the sides, 

 and the abdomen scantily clothed except at the edges. The 

 two terminal teeth of the front tibia are long and sharp and the 

 middle and hind tibia; and tarsi are fringed. 



cJ . The front tarsi are nearly twice as long as those of the 

 female. 



Lenr/th 14-18 mm.; breadth 7-8 mm. 



SiKKiM ; United Protijtces : Dehra Dun, Landaur ; Punjab : 

 Murree, Kangra Valley ; Centkal India : Mhow ; Bombay : 

 Belgaum ; Madras : Bangalore, 3Ialabar. 



Ti/jie in the Copenhagen University Museum ; that of perplexa 

 in the Oxford Museum. 



This is one of the most abundant Cetoniix,e throughout India. 

 Messrs. H. E. Andrewes and T, E. Bell inform me that in Southern 

 India it is found in great numbers upon stems of grass, etc., after 

 the autumn rains, and Mr. Maxwell Lefroy states that it is 

 injurious to juari (millet) and kutki (a leguminous crop), of 

 which it damages the fiowers. The organs of the mouth are 

 peculiar in being much stronger and more adapted for biting than 

 in normal Cetoxiin.«. 



