58 LAMELLIOORNIA. [CetOHW. 



C. Horicola, Ilerbst. (aenea, Gyll. ; metallica, F.). Very like the 

 preceding, but of an olivaceous leneous colour above, and a more violet, 

 coppery colour beneath ; the elytra are not, or scarcely sinuate at apex 

 near suture, and their sculpture is rather thicker and more confluent ; 

 the process of the uiesosternum is truncate at apex and punctured, and 

 the tooth in the centre of the posterior tibia? is much less pronounced ; 

 the colour of the upper surface varies somewhat and is occasionally 

 greenish, but I have never seen a specimen that could be mistaken for 

 C. aurata, even at first sight. L. 14-20 mm. 



On flowers, &c. ; local, and entirely confined to the North ; Northumberland 

 district, "near Stranton, Rev. E. Kirwood." Scotland, local, Highlands, Tay, Dee, 

 and Moray districts (Kauuoch, Aviemore, &c.). 



(Oxytherea, Mulsant.) 



This genus has sometimes been included under Cetonia, but differs in 

 the characters that have been before mentioned ; it contains between 

 fifty and sixty species, which, like the Cetonise, are chiefly found in 

 tropical countries; four species are found in Europe; of these one has 

 occurred occasionally in Britain, but is somewhat doubtfully indigenous. 



O. stictica, L. (funesta, Poda). Black, with a slight bronzy-green 

 or coppery reflection, shining, with the upper side thinly clothed with 

 upright whitish hairs, thorax, elytra, sides of abdomen, and pygidium 

 sprinkled with white spots ; head thickly punctured, clypeus rather long ; 

 thorax somewhat thickly and strongly punctured, with a trace of a raised 

 line and two rows of white spots on disc, and a white line within the 

 outer margins ; scutellum acuminate, smooth ; elytra with rows of horse- 

 shoe shaped punctures ; interstices sparingly and simply punctured ; 

 pygidium punctured ; process of mesosternum broad ; sides of breast with 

 long and thick pubtscence ; legs black. L. 9-12 mm. 



Male with the segments of the abdomen impressed in middle, and 

 with the first four segments furnished with a longitudinal row of white 

 spots in middle ; in the female these spots are wanting ; in the male, 

 moreover, the hinder tibiae are dilated internally at apex. 



On flowers, &c. ; very rare and doubtfully indigenous as British ; Stephen's 

 mentions three or four specimens as having been captured near Windsor by Mr. T. R. 

 (iricsbach, and also records it from Chichester ; two specimens were taken by Mr. 

 Sidcbotham and one by Mr. Kdlestou, on the flowers of Rosa spinosissima on the 

 Lancashire coast, in July, 1862 (v. Ent. Monthly Mag. i. 236) ; Mr. Ileston also 

 records it as having been taken upon ahrubs in a garden at Whalley Rango, 

 Manchester. 



GNORIMUS, Fabricius. 



The species belonging to this and the following genus are very easily 

 distinguished from the two that precede by having the elytra not 

 cmarginate at the sides, and the cpimura of the mcsothorax in it visible 

 from above, and by the fact that the thorax is very much narrower than 



