322 Mr. C. O. Waterliouse on neic Cetoniid^e. 



two on each lateral margin and three in a longitudinal line on 

 each side of the disk. The spots on the elytra are also 

 smaller. I believe this to be merely a variety. 



Copto7nia oJivacea. 



Olivacea, nitida : thorace ntrinquc punctis nonnullia impressis, 

 marginibus incrassatis ; elytris striis impressis (striis in fcemina 

 punctatis), apice ruguloso ; pygidio transversim confertim strigoso. 



Long. 7-8 lin. 



At first sight this might be mistaken for C. mauritiana | 

 it is, however, of a more olive-green, and is much shorter, etc. 

 The thorax is relatively a little sliorter and broader, smooth, 

 except some rather large punctures near the hinder angles. 

 The elytra are relatively shorter ; and the apical callosity is a 

 little further removed from the apex ; each elytron has three 

 pairs of impressed lines (besides some interrupted lateral 

 ones) ; these are strongly punctured in the female, smooth in 

 the male. The apex is rugulose-strigose, the rugosity ex- 

 tending along the side of the apical callosity. The pygidium 

 is moderately convex and alike in the two sexes. The sternal 

 process is very strong, not quite so long as in C. mauritiana^ 

 rather more triangular when viewed from below, much broader 

 at the base when viewed laterally. The abdomen in the 

 female is punctured in tiie same way with few punctures as 

 in the same sex of C. mauritiana ; but in the males there is 

 more punctuation and more pubescence. 



The anterior tibiaj in the male are simple, in the female 

 tridentate. 



Cojjtomia modesta, Waterh. 

 (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1879, iv. p. 81.) 



This species is most variable in colour ; but the uniform 

 green form with pitchy legs is by far the commonest. 

 Var, 1. Pale yellowish green, with yellow elytra. 

 Var. 2. Reddish yellow, with the back of the head, the 



discoidal area of the elytra, the sterna, and base of the 



abdomen dark green. 

 Var. 3. Grass-green ; elytra yellow, with the suture, 



margins, and the space between the two discoidal 



stria? green. 

 Var. 4. Black ; the elytra brown, with the space between 



the discoidal striai and the margins black. 

 Var. 5. Black, with the tibia? and tarsi pitchy. 

 Var. 6. Like var. 3, but with a white line or spot on 



each side of the first to fourth abdominal segments, 



and a large white patch on each side of the pygidium. 



