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are of a fine deep green, not shining, the surface 

 somewhat rough and corrugated. The under side 

 of the body is thickly clothed with tawny hairs, dis- 

 posed in tufts round the sides of the abdomen. 

 The legs are black. It is a native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



CETONIA MACLEAYI. 



PLATE XVII. Fig. 2. 

 Kirhy, Linn. Trans, xii. p. 408, pi. 21, fig. 11. 



This insect is depressed, very smooth and shin- 

 ing, of a golden green, approaching to emerald green. 

 The head and antennae are black, and the thorax 

 has a large discoidal spot of the same colour, which 

 is narrowed in front. The elytra have a large 

 quadrate spot of black on each side of the scutel- 

 lum, and there are two others towards the apex 

 which nearly meet and form a broad band. The 

 tibiae and tarsi are of a chestnut colour, and the 

 segments of the abdomen are margined with black. 



" This beautiful insect," says Mr Kirby, in the 

 paper above referred to, which has supplied us with 

 the annexed figure, " was brought from Manilla by 

 Mr Simon Davidson, Surgeon in the Royal Navy, 

 who purchased several of them in a shop, where 

 its elytra, and those of some splendid JBuprestes, 

 were sold as ornaments for ladies head-dresses." 



