CLINTERIA. 180 



line and a basal spot on each side of the pronotum and a spot at 

 the apex of the basal lobe, the raesosternal epiiiiera, and upon 

 each elytron a median anterior spot, one about the middle near 

 the suture, one before the apical angle and two adjohiing the 

 outer margin behind the middle ; a large spot on each side of the 

 pygidium, the sides of the metasternum and a double row of spots 

 ou each side of the abdomen are also white. 



The species is very smooth, rather convex, oval and slightly 

 elongate. The head is closely and finely punctured, and the 

 dypeus is dilated at the sides and rather narrow and sharply 

 bilobed in front. The pronotum is finely and sparsely punctured, 

 somewhat narrow in front, strongly rounded at the sides, and 

 furnished with a rather pointed basal lobe. The eh/tra have deeply 

 impressed rows of strong punctures, the sides are gently sinuated 

 behind the shoulders and the apical angles rounded. The 

 pygidium is finely rugose in the middle, the metasternum coarsely 

 punctured at the sides, and the ahdomen finely and thinly punctured. 

 The sternal process is short but pointed. The ler/s are rather 

 Blender, the front tibia armed with three sharp teeth, the hind tibia 

 produced into three sharp points at the extremity. 

 r^ . The abdomen is broadly channelled beneath. 



Length 1-1 mm. ; breadth 8 mm. 



W. Bengal : Paresnath (4000-4400 ft., May). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



Mr. Annandale tells me that he found this insect in enormous 

 numbers upon a flowering shrub in the above locality. 



170. Clinteria 14-maciilata. 



Cetonia 14-maculata, F., Ent. Sysf. i, 2, 1792, p. loO. 



Cetonia coeriilea, Kanneyieter (uec Herbst), Notes Leyd. Mus. 



xiii, 1891, p. 183. 

 Cetonia coerulea, var. megaspilota, Kanneyieter,* Notes Leyd. 



Mus. xiii, 1891, p. 183. 



Shining deep metallic green or blue, decorated above with white 

 spots, as follows : — a minute one behind each front angle of the 

 pronotum, a larger one before each hind angle (one or both 

 frequently absent), one on each mesosternal epimeron, one imme- 

 diately behind the thoracic lobe and common to both elytra, and 

 about seven to eleven others upon each elytron, the principal being, 

 one behind the front margin, three adjoining the outer margin, and 

 three near the inner margin, alternating with the last, the third 

 occupying the apical angle. The pygidium has a large white patch 

 on each side, and the sides of the sternum and abdomen are partly 

 or entirely barred with white. 



The form is oval and rather convex. The head is densely punc- 

 tured, and the dypeus long, narrowed in front and rather deeply 

 notched. The pronotum is finely punctured, narrowed in front 

 and provided with a rather strong and pointed lobe behind. The 



