of Malayan Cetoniidce. 541 



captured in each of the above localities. It varies in the 

 width of the bands and in the shade of green of the 

 surface. It was observed flying swiftly near the ground, 

 settling occasionally among rotten wood and dead leaves. 



14. LoMAPTERA AEOUENSis, Thomson. 



Lomaptera arouensis, Thorns. Arch. Ent. i. p. 428, pi. 16, f.4. 



Hab.—K6 Islands (not Aru Is.), (Coll. Wall., B. M.) . 



Found abundantly at the flowers of cocoa-nut palms 

 on the beach at the Ke Islands ; I possess a male speci- 

 men of a purple-bronze colour instead of the usual glossy 

 oUve-green. 



15. Lomaptera ceramensis, n. s. 



Viridi-aenea, tenue punctata, jDcdibus pilis rufis vestitis. 



Very near L. arouensis, Thorns., the same form and 

 size, but rather greener in colour. It difiers however 

 by the thorax being more closely and uniformly punc- 

 tured, by the basal two-thirds of the elytra being thickly 

 covered with fine transverse strife, which form them- 

 selves into lines of punctures towards the base, and by 

 the hair on the coxa3, femora, and tibias being rufous, 

 whereas it is black in the allied species. 



iJrtfe.— Ceram (Coll. Wall., B. M.). 



A very closely allied species from Cambodia is de- 

 scribed below.* 



* Lomaptera cambodiensis, n. b. 



L. eeramensi simillima, sed clypeo minus punctate, scutello miuimo, 

 elytris m metlio tranverse subaugulatis, et processu sternali inagis 

 recto. 



Very close to L. ceramensis, rather narrower, colour more bronzy, elytra 

 somewhat augulated, with a distinct elevation across the disk and another 

 above the apical i^rominence ; clypeus less closely punctured ; scutellum 

 very small, oblong ; beneath, the sternal process is straight, not abruptly 

 incurved at the tip as it is in L. cerannensis ; hairs rufous as iu that 

 species. 



Length 13 lines. 



Hah. — Cambodia (Coll. Parry, <?). 



This species so closely resembles L. ceramensis that I was at first dis- 

 posed to think there must be an error in its locaUty. A closer examination 

 however has shown that there exist several slight biit important structural 

 characters which distinguish it from that species, and Major Parry assm-es 

 me he obtained it from the late M. Mouhot's collections from Cambodia. 

 It is however a curious example of such closely alhed forms being so 

 widely separated geographically. 



