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the elytra; the genus contains eight species, which are found in Europe, 
Armenia, Siberia, Japan, and N orth America ; five oceur in Europe, of 
which two are British ; one of these is a very conspicuous insect, and at 
first sight resembles a Cetonia; they are both rare and are very seldom 
now found in the country. 
J. Upper surface mostly black . . . os =e nec to 5 Cove RNDIS 7 
II. Upper surface golden green, brilliant; . ... 20) Sm aem) Gg NOBILIS, L. 
G. variabilis, L. (octopunctatus, F.; Trichius 8-punctatus, Gyll.). 
Deep black, moderately shining; head thickly and rugosely punctured, 
eyes prominent, clypeus rather large, antenne and palpi brown ; thorax 
much narrower than elytra, contracted in front and rounded at sides and 
base, thickly and coarsely punctured, with an obsolete depressed central 
line, anterior angles very blunt, posterior angles rounded, but often 
marked by a small tooth ; scutellum almost semicireular; elytra with 
feeble striz, thickly and rugosely punetured, with several small whitish- 
yellow spots, which are mostly ranged transversely and irregularly across 
the middle or just behind middle; abdomen with whitish spots at sides ; 
pygidium finely rugose with whitish-yellow spots; the latter, however, 
are not apparent in the female; breast more or less thickly pubescent, 
more so in male than in female; legs black, apex of tarsi sometimes 
bright red. L. 16-20 mm. 
Male with the first four joints of the anterior tarsi thickly clothed 
with a brush of yellow hairs at apex, the pygidium convex and not 
furnished with tubercles at apex, and the intermediate tibiz constricted 
and curved at base; the elytra are raised at apex into a more distinct 
blunt tubercular prominence than in female; in the latter sex the tarsi 
are not furnished with brushes of yellow hairs, and the pygidium is 
distinctly bituberculate ; in my single female specimen the claws and 
apex of tarsi are bright red, but I do not know whether this is a sexual 
difference. 
In the rotten wood of oaks, &c.; occasionally in flowers; rare; Tooting and 
Purley, Surrey ; rotten oaks, Windsor Forest; in the latter locality it used to occur 
annually in some numbers, and most of our specimens come from this district ; it has 
not, however, occurred there fora long time past. Stephens also records it from 
Penge and Brixton. 
G. nobilis, L. (Trichius nobilis, Gyll.). Very like the preceding in 
shape, sculpture, and general appearance, but at once known by its 
colour, which is brilliant golden green with the under-side coppery or 
reddish coppery ; there are two whitish spots on thorax, and the elytra 
and abdomen, and also the pygidium in male are marked more or less 
distinctly with whitish-yellow spots or patches, which are very small 
on the elytra; the thorax has the margins broader behind than in 
G. variabilis, and the posterior angles more marked; the scutellum is 
strongly transverse, and the spiracles of the last two abdominal segments 
are usually free; the sexual characters are much the same, except that the 
