CLINTERIA. 191 



172. Clinteria pumila. 



Cetonia pumila, Sicartz* Schiinh. Si/n. Ins. i, 3, 1817, App., p. 47. 

 Clinteria pumila, Burm., Handh. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 30G. 



Black, very smooth aud shining, the elytra sprinkled with small 

 white spots, viz., upon each, three near the sutural margin ex- 

 tending from the middle to the apical angle, two placed rather 

 obliquely in the anterior part, live or six placed irregulax-ly along 

 the lateral margin and one sublateral one behind the middle. The 

 sides of the lirst three ventral segments bear transverse white 

 marks at the posterior margins, and the pygidium and sides of the 

 body are thinly clothed with short tawny hairs. 



The species is small and rather narrow in form. The head is 

 densely and rugosely punctured and the dijpeus rather feebly 

 emarginate in front. The ]yroHotum is very lightly ])unctured upou 

 the disc and rather strongly at the front and sides. The hind 

 angles are completely rounded and the posterior lobe is rather 

 obtuse. The elijtra are strongly aud coarsely punctured in 

 irregular rows, the lateral margins strongly sinuated behind the 

 shouldei's and the apical angles produced. T]\e pygidium is rather 

 linely strigose, the metasternum coarsely rugose, and the abdomen 

 roughly punctured at the sides. The mesosternal irrocess is dis- 

 tinctly prominent and a little compressed at the end. The front 

 tibia bears three teeth, the uppermost short and obtuse, and the 

 hind tibia is produced beneath into a single tooth. 



Length 12 mm. ; breadth 7 mm. 



Bengal (?) ; Ceylon: Hambautota (November — T. B. Fletcher). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



This description is made from the type specimen, which is in 

 bad condition, but I believe is specifically distinct from the two 

 preceding. The spots upon the elytra are as in C. l-i-mamlata, 

 but there are none upon the pronotum or pygidium ; the clypeus 

 is only slightly notched at the margin and the elytra are markedly 

 produced at the apical angles. It is very different from the 

 variety of C. chloronota described by Mr. Van de Poll as probably 

 C. pumila (Notes Leyd. Mus. xiii, 1891, p. 184). 



Mr. Bainbrigge Fletcher has brought two specimens (which 

 also are not very well preserved) from Ceylon. These agree with 

 the type, except that in one the pygidium bears two minute white 

 spots on each side and the elytra bear a common spot adjacent to 

 the scntellum. 



Group 6. LOMAPTERIDES. 



This group consists of the large genus Lomaptera, peculiar to 

 New Guinea and the neighbouring islands, together with a few 

 smaller Oriental genera. The species are of rather large size, flat, 

 elongate, and remarkably smooth and shining, without any super- 

 imposed ornamentation and almost devoid of hairs. The clypeus is 

 deeply excised in front and the pronotum is produced into a strong 



