UXYTHYEDA. 175 



Genus OXYTHYREA. 



Oxythyrea, Muls.,f Coleopt. de France, Lmnell. 1842, p. 572; Lacord., 



Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 531. 

 Leucocelis, Bunn., Handb. Eat. iii, 1842, p. 421. — Type, Cetonia 



h(Bmorrhoidalis, F. (S. Africa). 



Type, Scarahceus sticticus, L. (Europe). 



Range. Europe, W. Asia aud Africa. 



Form rather elongate, smooth and shining above. Clypeus 

 rather long, feebly emargiuate and reflexed at the apex. Pro- 

 thorax rather narrow, with the base scarcely or not at all 

 emarginate before the scutellum. Scutellum small and extremely 

 acute, with concave sides. Elytra very strongly sinuated at the 

 outer margins, with the sutural angles sharp but not produced. 

 Legs rather long, with the front tibiae sharply toothed and the 

 hind tibiae digitate at the end and moderately fringed at the inner 

 edge. Mesosternal process broadly truncate and not produced. 



The great majority of the species are African and only a single 

 (Palaearctic) form is known in our region. 



152. Oxythyrea cinctella. 



Cetonia cinctella, Schaum, Analecta Entomolor/ica, 1841, p. 38. 

 Cetonia variegata, G. S; P., Monoyr. Cet. 1833, p. 294, pi. 57, fig. 3. 



Shininc black, thinly clothed beneath with short yellowish hairs, 

 and ornamented with opaque white markings consisting of a 

 marginal band and a small basal spot on 

 each side of the pronotum, numerous 

 small elongate spots on the elytra, 

 coalescing and becoming larger at the 

 sides aud apices, and large patches on 

 each side of the pygidium, sternum aud 

 first four ventral segments. 



The shape is elongate and convex. 

 The clypeus is rugosely punctured and 

 feebly aud broadly emarginate in front. 

 The prothoracc is much narrower than 

 the elytra, i-ather evenly punctured, 

 with the sides angulated before the 

 p. ^j middle, not greatly narrowed in front 



Oxythyrea cinctella. and nearly parallel behind. _ The base is 



gently rounded and almost imperceptibly 

 emarginate before the scutellum. The scutellum is very acutely 

 pointed and bears a few puuctures. The elytra are deeply striated, 

 the pygidium tinely rugose, and the metasternum and abdomen 

 sparsely punctured in the middle and more strongly at the sides. 

 T\iQ front tibia is armed with two sharp teeth. 

 S . The abdomen is slightly channelled. 

 Length 9-12-5 mm. ; breadth 5-7 mm. 

 Baluchistan : JSJushki District, Quetta. 



I' Mulsant's volume was published in August, and Burmeister's at a later 

 date in the same year. Mulsant's name is therefore used for the genus. 



