8 Orper—COLEOPTERA. Srectilon—PENTAMERA. 
Gents 8—MACROMA. 
Gory et Perch. Mon. Cet. 1833, p. 35. 
Syy.: Campsiura. Hope in Gray’s Zool. Mise. pt. 1, 1831, sine descriptione. 
Estenomenus. Faldermann. 
Corpus crassum, superficie glabra; caput vertice convexo, clypeo basi angustata, margine antico reflexo 
sinuato. Maxille mandonis dente apicali crasso 2- 3-denticulato; galea elongata curvata acuta. Mentum 
oblongum margine antico profunde emarginato, vel bilobato, vel fere recto, parte antica obliqua. Prothorax 
subconicus antice truncatus, vel trapezoidalis, e medio ad caput sensim angustatus, angulis posticis rotundatis, 
margine postico parum lobato. Elytra e basi ad apicem sensim angustata. Prosternum simplex. Mesosternum 
inter coxas intermedias dilatatum et porrectum, apice cum processu antico porrecto metasterni coalito, rotundato. 
Abdomen maris segmentis ventralibus basalibus canaliculatis. Pedes mediocres robusti, tibiis anticis bidentatis, 
coxis posticis angulo externo acuto prominenti. 
The species of this genus differ from all the rest of the sub-family in their variegated colours as well as in 
the shape of their robust bodies, which bear a greater resemblance to the ordinary form of the typical Cetoniide. 
The species are natives of Africa and the East. 
Division I—SPECIES AFRICAN. (Sp. 1-7.) 
Species 1 (3)—MACROMA SCUTELLATA. 
Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 146, No. 54; Schénherr, Syn. Ins. 1. 3. 129, 78. 
Puate VI, Fic. 1. 
Obovata subdepressa, glabra, nigra nitida, flavo-variegata; clypei apice subconico elevato nigro, fascia 
postica cum linea verticali sensim attenuata, connexa, flavis; antennarum clava brunnea ; prothorace subtrigono, 
lateribus in medio parum dilatatis; medio postice canaliculato, lateribus anguste et irregulariter, et linea media 
tenui quali dorsali, flavis ; elytris nigris disco parum-, lateribus rugose- punctatis, apice subrugoso ; scutello flavo ; 
pygidio in medio tenue carinato, utrinque pone medium tuberculo instructo, macula magna subquadrata basali 
in lineam tenuiorem ad apicem extensa flava ; coxis anticis flavis, pedibus omnibus nigris; corpore subtus nigro 
nitido ; abdominis segmentis 2, 3, 4, et basi 5ti castaneis; metasterni lateribus late, coxarum posticarum et 
segmentorum abdominalium lateribus supra expositis, segmentoque 5to fascia tenui transversa in medio inter- 
rupta, flavis. 
Long. corp. lin. 84; lat. humer. elytr. lin. 44. 
Habitat; Guinea, Cape Coast Castle. In Mus. Oxonixe et Hafnia (Westermann olim.) 
Specres 2 (4)—MACROMA CONFUSA. 
Pruate VI, Fic. 2. 
Castanea nitida, capitis clypeo toto, maculaque trigona verticali connexa, prothoracis lateribus latis 
(singulo punctum parvum nigrum includente) lineaque media angusta (antice abbreviata), scutello, maculis 
lateralibus abdominis maculaque trifida pygidii, flavis; capite et lateribus prothoracis pone medium minute 
punctatis; coxis anticis flavis. 
Long. corp. lin. 7}. 
Habitat; Senegal, Sierra Leone, Abyssinia. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonie (typus Gorii), &e. 
Syn.: Macr. confusa. Hope (sine deser.), Trans. Ent. Soc. vol. ii. p. 65 ; Schaum, Verzeichn. 1848, p. 60. 
Macr. Abyssinica. Westw. MS ; Schaum, Verz. Lam. Melit. p. 60. 
Macr. bispinosa. Schaum in litt. 
Macr. scutellaris. Gory et Perch. Mon, Cet. pl. XXIII, fig. 4, nee Maer. seutellata, Fabr. 
Dr. Schaum (in a letter to me of October 28, 1848) says: ‘I have lately obtained two specimens of Macroma 
Abyssinica, and seen about a dozen more in the Senkenberg Museum, in Frankfurt, taken by Ruppel. I have 
