58 LAMELLICORNIA. [ Cetonia. 
C. floricola, Herbst. (enea, Gyll.; metallica, F.). Very like the 
preceding, but of an olivaceous neous colour above, and a more violet, 
coppery colour beneath; the elytra are not, or scarcely sinuate at apex 
near suture, and their sculpture is rather thicker and more confluent ; 
the process of the mesosternum is truncate at apex and punctured, and 
the tooth in the centre of the posterior tibiz is much less pronounced ; 
the colour of the upper surface varies somewhat and is occasionally 
greenish, but I have never seen a specimen that could be mistaken for 
C. aurata, even at first sight. L. 14-20 mm. 
On flowers, &c.; local, and entirely confined to the North; Northumberland 
district, ‘‘near Stranton, Rev. R. Kirwood.’’ Scotland, local, Highlands, Tay, Dee, 
and Moray districts (Rannoch, Aviemore, &c.). 
(Oxytherea, Mulsant.) 
This genus has sometimes been included under Cetonia, but differs in 
the characters that have been before mentioned ; it contains between 
fifty and sixty species, which, like the Cetoniz, are chiefly found in 
tropical countries; four species are found in Europe; of these one has 
occurred occasionally in Britain, but is somewhat doubtfully indigenous. 
O. stictica, |). (funesta, Poda). Black, with a slight bronzy-green 
or coppery reflection, shining, with the upper side thinly clothed with 
upright whitish hairs, thorax, elytra, sides of abdomen, and pygidium 
sprinkled with white spots ; head thickly punctured, clypeus rather long ; 
thorax somewhat thickly and strongly punctured, with a trace of a raised 
line and two rows of white spots on disc, and a white line within the 
outer margins ; scutellum acuminate, smooth ; elytra with rows of horse- 
shoe shaped punctures; interstices sparingly and simply punctured ; 
pygidium punctured ; process of mesosternum broad ; sides of breast with 
long and thick pubescence ; legs black. L. 9-12 mm. 
Male with the segments of the abdomen impressed in middle, and 
with the first four segments furnished with a longitudinal row of white 
spots in middle; in the female these spots are wanting; in the male, 
moreover, the hinder tibiw are dilated internally at apex. 
On flowers, &c.; very rare and doubtfully indigenous as British; Stephens 
mentions three or four specimens as having been captured near Windsor by Mr. I. R. 
Griesbach, aud also records it from Chichester ; two specimens were taken by Mr. 
Sidebotham and one by Mr. Edleston, on the flowers of Rosa spinosissima on the 
Lancashire coast, in July, 1862 (vy. Ent. Monthly Mag. i. 236); Mr. Reston also 
records it as having been taken upon shrubs in a garden at Whulley Range, 
Manchester. 
GNORIMUS, Fabricius. 
The species belonging to this and the following genus are very easily 
distinguished from the two that precede by having the elytra not 
emarginate at the sides, and the epimera of the mesothorax nct visible 
from above, and by the fact that the thorax is very much narrower than 
