CETONIIDAE FROM UGAXDA 2G7 



38. CoeiioeKiliis l>a.;»-oni ii. sp. 



Similar to C. calcaratus, Westw., I)ut larger, proportionately 

 broader and of an altoji-ether stouter build. The liead is more 

 strongly rugose, the central \yayX being strongly asperate. The 

 prothorax is conspicuously l)roader, being distinctly transverse, 

 very nuich more closely and coarsely punctured , the Ijasal im- 

 pressions larger and deeper, the lateral margins rather more 

 strongly raised, and the median line less marked. The elytra are 

 without dorsal striae, have the sulci nuich more feeble and almost 

 effaced, and the punctuation is rather less close. The pygidium is 

 less closely aciculate-punctate, more shiny, .■ind is sparsely clotlied 

 with yellowish setae. The metasternum is more coarsely sculptured, 

 anil is clothed with long yellow hair. 



In the male the hind tibiae are short and armeil at tlie apex 

 with a large curved thorn-like process as in calcaratus. 



The female is very densely sculptured and almost dull on 

 the upperside, the punctures on the prothorax are very dense and 

 become confluent and irregularly strigifomi in front; the elytra 

 liave, besides the coarse punctures, an exceedingly dense and fine 

 strigiibrm punctuation which renders them almost opake , tlie 

 abdomen is convex and very coarsely punctured, the femora and 

 tibiae are closely strigose, the front tibiae are produced outwardly 

 and obtusely bifid at the apex , the hind tibiae are longer than 

 in the male, somewhat prolonged but not armed with a spine at 

 the apex. 



Length iJA-^5 nun., breadth at the shoulders '.> nun. 



Jinja, Busoga, May I'JOl). 



Two male and one female examples. 



39. Coeuocliilti^ tuI>ei*oiiIcitiis ii. sp. 



Elongate and s(jmewhat tiattened above; red-brown, shining. 

 Head with a slight, transverse, sub-])asal carina, the base sjiaringly 

 punctured, forehead and cly[)eus convex and asperate in the centre, 

 a large fovea on eacli side above the eyes, the clypeus a little 

 widened in front, rather deeply emarginate and rounded at the 

 apex. Prothorax bi'oadest slightly behind the middle where the 

 sides are obtusely angulated, the basal angles almost right angles. 



