536 Mr. A. R. Wallace's Catalogue 



punctate on the disk, coarsely on the sides; scutellum 

 distinct, triangular; elytra puuctate-striate at the base 

 and sides, obscurely striate with a few obsolete raised 

 points on the disk, transversely striate at and near the 

 apex ; pygidium very obtuse, transversely conoidal ; an- 

 terior tibiae with two lateral teeth, sternal spine moderate, 

 slightly cvirved. Colour entirely black, the elytra some- 

 times pitchy and more distinctly punctate-striate. 



Length 10-12 lines. 



Hah.— Timor (Coll. Wall. ^ , ? ). 



Very near L. pulla, {ehena, Burm.) , but broader, less 

 smooth, less parallel, and has a larger scutellum. 



3. LoMAPTERA PULLA, Schonherr. 



Cetonia piilla, Schonh. Syn. Ins. I. iii. App. p. 46 (1817) . 

 C. nigrita, Frolich, Naturf. xxvi. p. 110 (1792), ih. xxix. 



pi. iii. fig. 5 {uec Fabr., 1775). 

 Lomaptera cupripes, Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1841, 



p. 27. 



L. nigrocenea, Waterhouse, I. c. 



L. viridicenea, Gory & Perch. Mon. Cet. p. 309, pi. 60, f.5. 



L. ehena, Burm. Handb. iii. p. 315. 



These forms, which vary much in size and colour, all 

 have the scutellum visible, the hind tibiae with a distinct 

 notch forming a small tooth about one-third from the 

 apex, and the sternal spine curved from the base. The 

 surface is very glossy and smooth, either bronzy black, 

 purple black, or brassy green ; the thorax is punctured 

 or striated only at the sides, and the elytra are faintly 

 punctate and somewhat striate towards the sides, and 

 more deeply striate at the apex. L. cupripes is a fine 

 variety of a rich brassy green, with the legs and the 

 shoulders and apex of the elytra bronzy purple. The 

 Penang specimens are smaller and glossy purple, but 

 offer no distinctive characters. The Hongkong specimens 

 are very fine and glossy, with the punctuation of the 

 elytra almost entirely wanting. Some of the small 

 Indian specimens, on the contrary, have the elytra very 

 much punctured, and there seems to be every form 

 between these extremes. The anterior tibiae are spined 

 as in L. agni. 



