CETONIA AURATA, var. y. 



Plate XXXIII. flg. 1. 



Order ; Coleoptera. Section : Laraellicornes. Family : Cetoniidae. 



Genos. Cetonia, Fatmcim. Scarabaeus, Linn. 



Cetonia Aurata. Segmento abdominis primo lateribus unideutato, elytris lineolis transversis albis. (Long. 



Corp. 9 lin.) 

 Syn. Scarabaeus Pallidus, Brury, App. v. 2. Herbst. Col. \\\.p. 247. 35. tab. 3\.Jiff. 2. 



Cetonia Aurata, Duftschm. F7i. Aiist. I.p. 166. 3. Schonh. Syn. Ins. 111. p. 119. No. 37. y. 



Habitat : Smyrna (Drury). 



General colour above, rusty copper; beneath, shining purple. Thorax smooth, margined, and 

 narrow in front. Elytra margined, and near their extremities a little protuberant. On the first joint of 

 the abdomen are two scales lying close under the hinder thighs, which are thin and sharp on their edges, 

 but next the body are thick and strong.* The breast is a little hairy. Tibiae dentated and hairy, except 

 the fore ones. Each of the tibiae with two spurs. 



CETONIA FASCICULARIS. 



Plate XXXIII. fig. 2. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Lamellieornes. Family : Cetoniidae. 

 Genus. Cetonia, Fabricius. Scarabaeus, Linn. 



Cetonia Fascicdlaris. Thorace lineis quatuor albis, elytris viridibus, abdominis incisuris barbatis. (Long. 

 Corp. 1 unc.) 



Syn. Scarabaeus Fascicularis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 'i.W.p. 557. 75. 



Cetonia F. Fabricius Syst. Eleuth.2.p. 144. 45. Oliinei- Ent. 1. 6. p. 16. 12. t. U. f. 108. Schouh. 

 Syn. Ins. 3. 126. 67. Petiv. Gazoph. t. 8./. 6. Roesel. vol. 2. tab. B./. 6. 



Habitat : Cape of Good Hope. 



Head black, small, and quadrangular. Antennse black. Thorax black, smooth, and shining : with 

 a white margin on its sides, and two white lines running from the neck to the posterior edge, being 

 placed nearly at equal distances. Scutellum triangular, black, and shining. Elytra dark green. Each 

 joint of the abdomen is covered with tufts of orange-coloured hairs on its sides. Femora and tibiae, 

 particularly the fore ones, hairy. The middle of the breast and abdomen is black and shining. Anterior 

 tibiae with four spines and teeth ; the middle ones with six, and the hind ones with five. 



* These scales, which Drury in his description called " the abdominal scales," are the dilated trochanters of the postei-ior 

 pair of legs. 



