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Head green, small, quadrangular, and margined. On the front is a tubercle, like a short thick horn ; 

 in the middle is another lying flat. Thorax margined, and of a dark green colour, but round the sides of 

 a dirty clay colour. Elytra faintly margined ; in some specimens being of a dark green, with a dark 

 orange border on the sides ; in others almost entirely of a dark orange, and in others party-coloured. 

 Thorax terminating between the wing-cases, like an obtuse angle ; but a microscope discovers something 

 like a scutellum. Breast and abdomen shining green, and not hairy. The femora and tibiae clay- 

 coloured ; but when held in particular positions, seem of a shining green. Posterior trochanters 

 distinct. 



MACRASPIS TETRADACTYLA. 



Plate XXXIII. fig. 7. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Laraellicornes. Family: Rutelidae. 



Genus. Macraspis, MacLeay. Cetoiiia, Fabr. Scaraboeus, Linn. 



M ACRASPis TETRADACTYLA. Atra, scutello elytris lUmiilio breviore, pedibus triunguiculatis, pollice fixo. (Long. 

 Corp. cii'c. 1 unc.) 



Syn. ScarabsBus Tetradactylus, Linn. Mant. 530. Stoane Jamaica, t. 237./. 2. 



CetoniaT. Fabr. Syst. El.U.p. 161. 80. Olivier Enc. 1.6. p. 74. 93. ^2./. 8. ii- t.T.f. 53. 



Habitat : Jamaica. 



Entirely deep shining black. Front of the head margined, from whence underneath appear two lips. 

 Thorax margined. Elytra not margined, nor covering the anus. Scutellum remarkably large and 

 long, reaching half way down the wing-cases. Posterior trochanters distinct. Sternum long. Tibiae 

 dentated, and armed with spines, particularly at the tips ; tarsal joints also furnished with spines. 

 Ungues composed of two principal hooks, which cUvide and separate as usual ; but one has an immoveable 

 lesser hook within it, and likewise a long spine fixed to the last tarsal joint of equal length with the 

 hooks, as shewn in the figure near the insect. 



GYMNETIS LANIUS. 



Plate XXXIII. fig. 8. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Lamellicornes. Family : Cetoniidse. 



Genus. Oymhetis, Mac Leay. ScarabiEus, ijn?i. Cetonia., Fabr. 



Gymnetis Lanius. Livida, thoraee punetis duobus, elytris maculis plurimis nigris, aterno antiee cornuto. (Long. 

 Corp. fere 1 unc.) 



Syn. ScarabiEus Lanius, Litm. Syst. Nat. 1. 11. p. 557. No. 77 ? 



Cetonia L. Fabrieius Syst. EL 11. p. 141. 34. Olivier Ent. IQ.p. 19. 15. t. 2./. 4. Sloane Jamaica, 

 11. tab. 231./. 7. 8? 



Habitat: Jamaica. 



Head quadrangular, with a black margin. Antennae brown. General colour dirty clay. Thorax 

 iaintly margined, tenninating between the wing-cases in a blunt angle, having four black spots on the 

 top near the head. Elytra with a great number of black spots of different shapes sprinkled all over 

 them. Scutellum concealed. Femora hairy. Tibiaj the same, except the fore ones ; all of which are 

 party-coloured, being at the base clay colour, and at the tips black. The tarsi and ungues black. 

 Posterior trochanters large and strong. Sternum long, and inclined from the body. 



