184 CETONIIN^. 



$ . The front tibia is broad and armed with three rather blunt 

 teeth. 



Leiigih 12-15 mm. ; hreadth 7*5-9 mm. 



Ceylon: Kandy, Dikoya, Maskeliya, Pattipola {.Tan. -April). 



Tiipe in the Paris Museum. 



Mr. E. E. Greeu states that this species devours the blossoms 

 of Crotalaria and prevents the formation of the seed. 



C. chloronota varies very greatly in coloration, form and size. 

 The single specimen which Mr. Van de Poll has tentatively 

 suggested as C. jaanila, Swartz (a very different insect), is almost 

 free from opaque bloom and the pronotum is less closeW punctured 

 than usual. 



1G3. Clinteria spuria. 



Cliuteria spuria, Burm., Handb. Ent. v, 1847, p. 5-j5. 



Deep chocolate colour, opaque above, with the head, pygidium 

 and lower surface coppery and shining; decorated with yellow 

 markings consisting of a narrow marginal line on each side of the 

 pronotum, a pair of minute spots in the middle and one upon the 

 basal lobe, one upon each mesosternal epimeron, and ujion each 

 elytron an anterior spot, a pair placed transversely behind the 

 shoulder, a minute one near the middle of the inner margin, 

 another behind it, a short transverse mark at the outer margin, 

 a spot behind it, and a sinuous mark at the apex. The pygidium 

 has a spot on each side and a short longitudinal mark in the middle 

 of the base, and the abdomen has a double row of spots on each 

 side. 



Rather short and compact in form. The head is finely rugose 

 with the front margin feebly excised. The pronotum is moderately 

 closely punctured, and is narrow in front, with the sides regularly 

 curved and the basal lobe not long. The elijira are coarsely 

 punctate-striate, and the apical angles are slightly rounded. The 

 pi/gidiian and the sides of the metasiermon are densely rugose, and 

 the sides of the abdomen slightly so. The sternal jJ^'OCtss is 

 scarcely produced and very blunt. The front tihia is armed with 

 three sharp teeth. 



(S . The abdomen is feebly channelled. 



Length 13-14 mm. ; hreadth 7-8 mm. 



Bhutan; Assam: Khasi Hills, Manipur ; Bukma : X. Khyen 

 Hills. 



164. Clinteria spilota. 



Cetonia spilota, Hope* Gray's Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 2.5. 

 Cetonia continis, id.,* I. c. 



Gj'muetis coiitiuis, G. 4" P-, Monogr. Cet. 18-J3, p. 378, pi. 77, fig. 5. 

 Gymuetis viridipe-s. G. Sf P.,* /. c. p. 364, pi. 73, tig. 5 ; Schanm^ 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1849, p. 259. 



Chocolate-red, sometimes with the prothorax and the sutural 



