of African, Asiatic and Australian Cetoniidce. 69 



Dicronocephnhis IVallichii, Hope, in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1831, 



p. 21. 



(Westw. Arc. Ent. i. p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 4, $ .) 

 (? Plate VII. fig. .3.) 



or this fine insect (the analysis of the mouth of which was first 

 given, with a figure of the male, in the Arcana Entomologica), 

 the male only was known from specimens captured by the 

 late Dr. Wallich. Mr. Fortune having, however, been so fortu- 

 nate as to re-discover the insect in North China, and to meet 

 with both sexes, I am enabled to give a figure of the female 

 (Plate VII. fig. 3), which differs very widely, in general appear- 

 ance, from the male. The head above is concave, and thickly 

 and coarsely ])unctured ; the front part is somewhat quadrate, with 

 the anterior lateral angles produced into rather obtuse points, 

 between which the fore margin is emarginate ; the sides are swollen 

 in the middle ; above, the head is chesnut red, sliglitly glossy, 

 with the hind part between the eyes obscure black, with two small, 

 dull, whitish spots. The prouotum is covered with didl, opaque, 

 dark greenish-yellow pile, except two raised, slightly curved, 

 longitudinal bars, which are black, glossy, and finely punctured ; 

 the lateral and posterior margins are slender and raised. The scu- 

 tellum is black and punctured, wn'th a narrow, central, luteous line. 

 The elytra are covered with the same kind of pile as the pronotum, 

 with a narrow dark streak along the suture at the humeral angles, 

 an irregular longitudinal stripe extending thence to the subapical 

 tubercle, and the lateral narrow raised margin, all of which are 

 black. The podex is chesnut, redder at the tip, finely punctured, 

 with a luteous patch on each side. The body beneath is black, 

 the meso and metasterna spotted with buff, as well as the sides of 

 the posterior coxae ; the anterior coxae are black, chesnut in the 

 middle of the front side. All the femora are chesnut red beneath, 

 with the upper edge black, as well as the tips. The anterior 

 tibiae are black, chesnut red beneath, and along the inner margin ; 

 the four posterior tibiee are chesnut red, black at the base and 

 tips. The tarsi black, and with the base of the 3rd and 4th joints, 

 and the greater part of the 5th joint, fulvous. The maxillae 

 (fig. So) are unarmed at the tip of the lower lobe; the upper one 

 is, however, acutely pointed at the tip. The mentum is broad, 

 the middle of each side much and roundly dilated, the fore margin 

 deeply emarginate (fig. 3 h.) The mesosternum is not produced 

 into a porrected point, although it is of a conical form (fig. 3 c,3 d). 



