PROTAETIA ENGELHARDI. O 



cimens (the variety included) have been brought home from 

 Saleyer (an island south of Celebes) by Mr. H. E. D. 

 Engelbard, who kindly presented them to the Leyden 

 Museum. The specimens were captured in November, Ja- 

 nuary and March. 



4. Protaetia Engelhardi^ n. sp. 



Length 14 mm. — Shining; green with coppery and 

 purplish tinges above , purplish copper beneath , legs and 

 antennae coppery red. Head and clypeus strongly punctu- 

 red , the fcfi-mer shallowly depressed between the eyes , the 

 depression rather closely set with whitish hairs and pro- 

 vided with a short smooth keel ; the margins of the clypeus 

 are turned up especially the front margin which is biden- 

 tate in consequence of a deep notch in the middle ; the 

 flagellum of the antennae elongate. Thorax rather remo- 

 tely covered with strong deep punctures; the lateral edges 

 are margined and narrowly bordered with white ; moreover 

 the disk shows six minute white spots arranged in two 

 transverse rows of which the anterior one consists of two , 

 the posterior curved one of four spots ; three by three these 

 spots form two lateral triangles the tips of which are direct- 

 ed to the centre of the disk. The scutellum is somewhat 

 elongate triangular, smooth. The elytra are irregularly 

 spotted with white all over, and irregularly and rather 

 densely covered with large but not deeply impressed semi- 

 circular punctures, each of which has a fine central point; 

 the sutural margins which are sharply keeled towards the 

 apex , and a curved ridge extending from the apical cal- 

 lus not quite up to the shoulders are impunctate ; the su- 

 tural angles slightly prolonged. The pygidium shows short 

 curved scratches , and is covered with a white crust which 

 only leaves a bare patch in the middle as well as traces 

 of two lateral ones. Beneath , the hind coxae and the sides 

 of the thorax striate, those of the abdomen sparingly 

 punctured ; provided on the sides with patches of a white 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. "VI. 



