of Exotic Cetoniida. 47 j 



AUorlnna hyjpoglauca. (PI. VII. fig. 6.) 

 _ Supra fulva opaca, nigro-punctata, subtus Igete opalino- 

 viridis, capite foemina^ inermi, clypei margine autico in- 

 tegro, supra viridi parum tincto, thoracis punctis non- 

 nulhs irregularibus minutis nigris; elytris subplauis, haud 

 costatis, punctis plurimis parvis rotundis maculisque tri- 

 bus lateralibus_ nigris, fascia transversa pauUo pallidiori 

 mdistincta media, alteraque inter medium et apicem, apice- 

 que ipso impunctatis ; epimeris et apice supra detecto 

 coxarum posticarum viridi-tinctis ; pedibus nigris, femori- 

 bus opalino-viridibus : corpore subtus opalino-viridi, pro- 

 cessu sternali serieque macularum in medio abdominis 

 nigris. 



Long. Corp. lin. 12 ; lat. burner, elytr. lin. 6. 



Habitat Nicaragua. In Mus. Hopeano Oxoniie et 

 Higgins. 



Parachilia Bitfo. (PI. VII. fig. 7.) 

 Cetonia Biifo, Gory and Percheron in Silberm. Rev. 

 Ent. iii. 129. Burmeister, Handb. d. Ent. iii. 558 

 {Parachilia Biifo). 



Tota nigra, opaca, velutina, capite antice acute bi- 

 fido, punctato, maxillis dense rufo-barbatis, prothorace 

 leviter punctato, suj^ra convexo, subquadrato, lateribus 

 antice rotundatis, postice fere rectis, margine tenui levi 

 laterali, postico ante scutelhim fere recto ; hoc fere iin- 

 punctato, elytris | )one humeros prothorace multo latioi'ibus, 

 prope scutelkuii depressis, postice sensim angustatis, nigris, 

 leviter punctatis singuloque sutura costisque duabus pa- 

 rum distinctis impunctatis ; podice rugoso ; mesosterno 

 simplici haud porrecto, rotundato, metasterno abdomineque 

 nitidis, illo sulco tenui medio longitudinali, hujus segmentis 

 convexis serieque subapicali punctorum oblongorum, im- 

 pressis ; pedibus crassis, tibiis anticis extus tridentatis, 

 posticis quatiior in medio extus spina unica armatis $. 



Mas pedibus elongatis. Var. elytris obscure rufis. 



Long, cor p. lin. 16^ ; lat. humer. elytr. lin. 9. 



Habitat Madagascar. In INIus. D. Higgins et Hopeano 

 Oxon. 



No figure having hitherto been published of this in- 

 teresting species, I have added a description and figure of 

 the femde. The male of the nearly allied P. Leroyi of 

 Coquerel is figured in the Annales of the French Entom. 

 Society for 1859, ph 7, f. L 



TRANS. EXT. SOC. 1874.— rAKT IV. (oEC.) K K 



