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c. Melitophila. Lat. 



Family CETONIAD_^. Cetoniadans. 



LXXIII. Genus CETONIA. Fab. 



(185) 1. Cetonia fulgida. (Fabricius.) Fulgid Cetonia. 



Cetonia fulgida. Fab. Syst. Ent. 48, 27 ; Syst. Eleuth. ii, 150, 77. Oliv. Eni. i, 6, &3, 35, t. viii. / 75. Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. Ed. Gmel. iv, 1574, 336. Voet. Col. i, 17, 24, t. iii, f. 24? 



Length of the body 7£ lines. 



Taken in Canada, at Lake St. Clair, by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body depressed, of a beautiful glossy green. Head black underneath, above grossly punctured ; 

 eyes reddish-brown ; antennae brown-black ; nose anteriorly subemarginate and a little reflexed ; 

 prothorax with a triple posterior sinus, grossly but not thickly punctured, sides luteous : scutellum 

 an isosceles triangle, impunctured : elytra, in some lights, luteous, in others with a shade of green ; 

 at the base grossly but not thickly punctured, the remainder of the elytrum is acuducted like net 

 work ; disk longitudinally depressed : podex dusky, luteous at the apex, with four triangular, white, 

 basilar spots ; abdomen underneath with a double series of triangular white spots on each side, the 

 outer ones elongated: sides of the breast hairy; mesosternum suborbicular, hairy; legs luteous; 

 tarsi and base of the cubits, brown-black. 



Family TRICHIAD^. Trichiadam. 



LXXIV. Genus TRICH1US. Fab. 



(186) 1. Trichius Bigsbii. (Kirby.) Bigsby s Trichius. 



Trichius Bigsbii. Kirb. Zool. Journ. iii, 155, t. v. f. 7 

 Length of the body 7 lines. 



Taken in Canada, near Lake St. Clair, by Dr. Bigsby. 



