neif or lifth' knoirn CetoniifLT?. 253 



Scutelhini iinpuuctate ; fulvous slightly tinged with green, 

 shining. 



Elytra pavallel-sided, the snture and two longitudinal carina"" 

 on each strongly raised and with scattered fine punctures, the 

 interstices rather coarsely and very closely piuictiired, the punc- 

 tures confluent and forming irregular stria; at the sides and apex; 

 pale fulvous, shining. 



Pijgidimn flat, finely irregularly strigose ; greenish-black with 

 a large triangular white ])atch on each side. 



Beneath greenish-black, shining, the sides broadly wdiite ; 

 mesosternal process rather broad, apex obtuse, pale yellow ; 

 abdomen broadly white at the sides, with a row of small white 

 spots in the central depression ; legs pale red, the femora with 

 a longitiidinal Avhite stripe on their outor side. 



Angola. 



Allied to G. trin'ttatd, Swcd.: the specimen from -which I 

 have taken the above description was given to me by the Inte 

 Dr. Welwitsch. there are also specimens in Mr. Iliggins's coll(?c- 

 lion found bv IMonteiro, at Bembp. 



Gnaflioccra criKhi, n. sp. 



G. viridis, nitida, elytris scutelloque viridi-fulvis ; capite 

 ^•itta utrinque maculisque duabtis basalibus all)is ; thorace albo- 

 trivittato; elytris linea marginali alba postice dilatata ; pygidio 

 uti-inque albo-biplagiato. Long. 17 nun. 



Head coarsely strigose, base coarsely but s]3aringly punctured, 

 ■with the centre slightly longitudinally raised and smooth, sides 

 of clypeus sharply elevated, the apical points slightly curved 

 and acute, the anterior margin slightly prominent in the centre ; 

 shining green, a small spot on each side at the base, close to the 

 eyes, and a broad longitudinal stripe on each side of the clyj^etts 

 white ; antenna; l)lack, the club and palpi red. 



lluirax rather sparingly and finely punctured on the disc, the 

 ])unctures -^'oarser and confluent at the sides, lateral margins 

 strongly raised in the middle, basal margin deeply emarginate 

 above the scutellum ; shining green, sides and base slightly 

 fulvous, a central impressed narrow longitudinal stripe and one 

 on each side near the lateral margins (almost ii^terrupted in the 

 middle), white. 



Sciitelluiii large with the apex acute, impunctate ; fulvous 

 green, shining, 



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