new or little known Cetoniidie. 009 



rounded at the apex. Elytra with a broad obscure reddish 

 discal stripe extending from the base to the apical callosity, the 

 sides and apex pitchy black, the former marked Avith two small 

 transverse white lines; punctured in regular rows on the disc 

 and with two strife near the suture behind, the sides and apex 

 sparsely punctured and hirsute, the discal carinas evident. 

 Pygidium dull piceous, with an angulated white mark on each 

 side ; strigose and hirsute. Beneath reddish-green, shining, 

 thorax, margins of the metasternum, posterior cox« and four 

 transverse stripes at the sides of the abdomen white; mesosternal 

 j)rocess short and strongly dilated with an impressed hirsute 

 line; legs greenish-red. Length 11 mm. 



Borneo. 



Very distinct from G. rufovittatu, Guer., more nearly allied 

 to Bowringi, Wall. 



Protatia nu.c, n. sp., PI. XI, f. 3. 



$ Above dull black ; thorax with a fine interrupted marginal 

 line in front and a basal marginal line interrupted in the middle 

 and on each side white; elytra with two large transverse spots 

 on the disc and two small marginal ones white ; pygidium with 

 two large longitudinal white marks ; underside and legs shining 

 black with some large patches at the sides and the whole of the 

 abdomen, except the apex and several lateral spots, Avhite. Head 

 smooth; clypeus subquadrate, with sparse punctures at the 

 sides, the apex elevated and emarginate in the centre. Thorax 

 impunctate, the base trisinuous, Scutellum large, obtuse at the 

 apex. Elytra with the suture and lateral carina strongly elevated, 

 the apical angles acutely produced. Beneath sparsely strigose ; 

 mesosternal process dilated and rounded. Length 20 mm. 

 Dinagat, Philippine Islands. 



Allied to P. hife nest rata, Chev. 



GOLIATHOPSIS, U. geu. 



Body depressed, densely squamulose and finely hirsute. Head 

 reunded in front, the male with a strong erect furcate horn on 

 each side above the eyes, in the female with a small elevated 

 point; maxillfe ffig. 4b, c) with the inner lobe bidentate on one 

 side and with one tooth on the other, the galea long and obtuse ; 

 mentum ^fig. 4d) broad and slightly rounded in front. Thorax 

 almost hexagonal. Elytra prominent at the shoulders, rounded 



