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genera of this family. The insects are usually found in flowers in 

 their perfect state, and in that of a larva they devour roots. 



The genus may be divided, as there is considerable diversity in 

 the habit of the two species, which seem to belong to different genera. 



A. "With the body glabrous, and all the tarsi shorter than the tibia?. 



Sp. 1. aurata. Viridi-aurea, nitidissima, elytris albo-strigosis, sterno convexo 



apice subgloboso. (Long. corp. 9—11 lin.) 

 Sc. auratus. Linne.— Martyn, pi. 3. /. 27.— Ce. aurata. Steph. Catal. 118. 



Nu. 1203. 



Above rich shining golden-green, beneath bright cupreous: clypeus thickly- 

 punctured, with an elevated longitudinal line : thorax punctate, slightly con- 

 vex, immaculate : scutellum very smooth, with a few impressions at the base: 

 elytra irregularly and rather thickly impressed with dots and lunular marks, 

 with a broad furrow posteriorly towards the suture, and vanishing anteriorly, 

 the suture itself being elevated ; and on the posterior half various scattered 

 transverse undulated whitish marks : sternum smooth, with the produced apex 

 subglobose. 



Slightly variable in colour, and in size and markings. 



One of the most abundant of our coleopterous insects, frequenting 

 the flowers of the rose, &c, in gardens throughout the south of 

 England. " Common in Cambs." — Rev. L. Jenyns. "Common 

 about Swansea." — L. IV. Dilkvyn, Esq. 



B. Body pilose ; the posterior tarsi longer than the tibia?. 



fSp. 2. stictica. JVigro-cenea, undique albo-guttata, clypeo elongato, lineold 



frontis elevatd. (Long. corp. 5 — 6 lin.) 

 Sc. sticticus. Linne.—Ce. stictica. Steph. Catal. 118. No. 1204. — Sc. Greenii. 



Don. xii. pi. 418 ? 



Brassy or coppery-black, clothed with scattered whitish hairs : clypeus elongated, 

 with an elevated longitudinal ridge: thorax also with a longitudinal carina, 

 thickly punctate, with six parallel white spots in pairs on the back, and other 

 scattered ones towards the edges : elytra irregularly punctate-striate, and with 

 about twenty unequal white spots on each : breast densely pilose : abdomen 

 with a series of four white spots in the middle, and four smaller ones on 

 each side. 



Several specimens of this insect were taken three or four years 

 since near Windsor, by Mr. J. R. Griesbach : a pair were in the 

 collection of the late Mr. Francillon, and one or more in that of Mr. 

 Green, if the Sc, Greenii of Donovan be synonymous. 



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