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MlMELA POMACE A, n. Sp. 

 Of oblong form (at least in the female, the only sex known) ; elytra 

 relatively elongate. Above dark apple-green, without metallic lustre ; the 

 clypeus and lateral border of the thorax yellow. Eather strongly punctured, 

 more finely and sparsely on the crown and thorax, which are hence more 

 glossy than the clypeus and elytra ; on the latter the punctures lie very close, 

 without coalescing, and are arranged in numerous rows on the disk and sides. 

 The antennae, legs, and under-side are reddish, with a coppery tinge ; the 

 femora paler ; the tarsi nearly black, and the sides of the abdomen very dark 

 metallic green. The breast is clothed with longish tawny hairs ; the abdomen 

 and legs more scantily hairy ; the pygidium is closely and finely confluent- 

 punctate, subopaque, and hairy on its borders. The mesosternum has an 

 acute process, reaching a little further than the coxae. Long. 20 millim. $ . 



Wa-shan. 



Family CETONILim 



Neopiledimus auzouxi, Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1869 ; 1872 

 p. 280, pi. 14, f. 1 — 3, 3\ ?. 

 Wa-shan, 6000 feet. Previously found by Pere David at 

 Moupin ; on leaves of Indian corn, in August, according to Lucas. 



Ehomborhina japonica, Hope. 

 Wa-shan and Chia-ting Fu. Differs in no respect that I can 

 discover from Japanese examples. 



Cetonia marmorata, Fabr. 

 Var. cathaica. 



Belongs to the series of species and local varieties closely allied to the 

 European C. marmorata, in which the clypeus is nearly straightly truncated 

 in front, the pygidium slightly and evenly convex in both sexes, and the 

 abdomen in the male longitudinally grooved and depressed. The colour 

 above and beneath, including the legs, is dark green, with strong brassy or 

 golden reflections, and with the usual short depressed transverse lines and 

 spots on the elytra clothed with chalky tomentum. The head and thorax are 

 generally spotless, but the latter in some examples has four small white spots 

 arranged in a wide quadrangle, and other white streaks in the marginal 

 grooves. The form is always relatively broader than in either C. marmorata 

 or C. submarmorea, and the surface more polished. The sides of the clypeus 

 are not sharply elevated, the front margin is acutely reflexed and without 

 sinuation, and the forehead is broadly convex down the middle and only 

 sparsely punctured. The thorax is rather sparsely punctured, and on the 

 sides only, the praescutellar sinuation strongly marked. The elytra are 

 strigulate on the sides and near the shoulders, and in the usual postmedian 

 depression, elsewhere smooth. The pygidium is very slightly convex in the 

 middle in both sexes, and loosely transversely strigulose. The hind tarsi are 

 robust, in the male as long as the tibiae, in the female shorter. The femora 

 and tibiae are strigulose, like the pygidium ; the hair fringe of the femora and 

 inner side of hind tibiae is orange-tawny. The mesosternal process is broad 

 and arcuated in front as in G. marmorata. The sides of the metasternum 

 are strigose and spotted with chalky tomentum, and the abdomen has two 

 •rows of transverse tomentose spots on each side, which are smaller in the 

 female than in the male, and sometimes wanting. Long. 21 — 25 millim. 

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Wa-shan and Chia-ting Fu. Many examples. 



