is convex, thinly punctured, regularly rounded at the sides and 

 produced into a rather pointed lobe behind. The elytra are 

 rather smooth, with a few rows of fine punctures, the outer 

 ?nargins are moderately sinuated and the apical angles rounded. 

 The pygid'mm is closely strigose transversely, the metasternwn 

 deeply grooved along the middle and strongly and rugosely 

 punctured at the sides, and the ahdomen strongly and irregularly 

 punctured, except in tlie middle. The mesostemal process is long 

 and slender, and the front tibia is armed with three very sharp 

 teeth. 



J . The abdomen is slightly arched but not excavated. 



The var. incerta differs only in the absence of pale spots from 

 the mesosternal epimera. 



Length lG-22 mm. ; breadth 9-12 mm. 



Ceylon : Peradeuiya (March), Puudaluoya (April, May). 



15-i. Clinteria tetraspilota. 



Cetonia tetraspilota, Hope, Trans. Zool. Sac. Lond. i, 1835, p. 98 

 (1834) ; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, 1847, p. 35, pi. 4, fig. 8. 



Black and opaque above, with the head, legs and lower surface 

 shining, and decorated with pale yellow markings consisting of a 

 large patch on each side of the pronotum, occasionally broken into 

 tw'o, a large irregular median patch upon each elytron touching 

 the outer margin, a second large patch occupying the apical angle, 

 and a row of minute spots on each side of the metasternum and 

 abdomen. 



The form is flat and moderately elongate. The ht'ad is long, 

 closely punctured and a little elevated in the middle, and the 

 clypeus is rather deeply notched in front. The pronotuni is short, 

 narrow in front and broad behind, distinctly punctured and 

 strongly lobed at the base. The elytra are strongly striate- 

 punctate, with the outer margins gently sinuated and the apical 

 angles rounded. The pyyidium is transversely strigose, the jneta- 

 sternum smooth in the middle and coarsely punctured at the sides, 

 and the abdomen coarsely punctured at the sides and very feebly 

 in the middle. The mesosternal process is long, laterally com- 

 pressed, and directed obliquely downward, and the front tibia is 

 armed with three acute teeth. 



cJ . The abdomen is not arched or excavated, but the front 

 tibia is rather narrower and the hind tarsus a little longer than in 

 the $. 



Length 18-20 mm. ; breadth 9-11 mm. 



Bombay : Kanara ; Madras. 



Ty2)e not traced (in '■ coll. Sykes "). 



The yellow markings are subject to considerable variation. The 

 median and apical patches of the elytra sometimes coalesce, and 

 on the other hand the whole of the markings may be greatly 

 reduced. 



