184 CEYLON CETONIIDAE. 



Clintevia putnila Swtz. 



Nalanda. 



In the Munich Catalogue Clinteria pumila Swartz is 

 placed as a variety of CI. coerulea Hbst. ; now there is 

 among the Ceylon Cetoniidae a C/znima-species allied to 

 but quite distinct from coerulea Hbst. , which I feel 

 strongly inclined to regard as the true pumila^ although 

 neither Swartz's description nor Burmeister's redescription 

 are sufficiently complete to prevent every doubt, I there- 

 fore consider it useful to give a full description of this 

 Ceylon insect. 



9. Shining, dark cupreous, under surface, pygidium and 

 tarsi almost black with strong cupreous reflexions. 



Head coarsely punctured, somewhat convex in the middle, 

 with four small impressions, two near the insertion of the 

 antennae and two along the sides of the clypeus; clypeus 

 rather broad , slightly elevated laterally , front margin 

 moderately emarginate, with the lobes broadly rounded 

 and narrowly reflexed. 



Prothorax feebly angular in the middle, very narrowly 

 margined along the sides , with an irregular impression 

 filled with white pubescence about the middle ; deeply but 

 rather distantly punctured all over. The disc in front 

 with two hardly perceptible white punctures. 



Elytra broad , but very little narrowed posteriorly , 

 broadly rounded at the tip, obtuse at the suture, with 

 seven rows of large angular punctures on each, and a 

 few small scattered punctures along the sides , sutural 

 costae and the S»"'!, 5th, and 1^^ interstice — the latter 

 but very short — strongly raised; ornated with numerous 

 white spots , eleven on each wingcase , placed exactly as in 

 Cl. chloronota Blanch. 



Pygidium finely rugosely striated , clothed with a fulvous 

 pile. Underneath with the sides of the breast strigose, 

 sides of the abdomen roughly punctured, mesosternal pro- 

 cess obtusely produced , anterior tibiae with two strong 



Notes from the Leydeii IMuseuixi, Vol. Z?!CI1I. 



