COLEOPTERA. 



Sys Scarabs Kcenigii, Oliv. Ins. 1. 3. 163. 200. t. 9,/. 77. Fabricius Ent. Syst. 1, p. 65. 

 Zfo-Jsi. Col. U. p. 300, iVo. 195, (. 19,/. 8. 

 Scarabseus scriptus, Pallas Icon. p. 7. A. 7. T. A./. 7. 



Fabricius gives Tranquebar as the locality of this species. I have seen at in some 

 collections named Gymnopleurus granulans, which Fabricius, indeed, regarded as a 

 variety of Grymnopleurus Kcenigii. 



CETONIA HISTRIO. 



Plate II. fig. 4. 



Family. Cetoniace, MacLeay. 



Genus. Cetonia, Fabricius. Scarabaaus p. Linnmus. 



Species. Cetonia Histrio : testaoea ; tborace maculis duabus nigris ; elytris nigra, singulo 

 macula magna oblonga testacea, punctisque quatuor lateralibus albis. Long. 

 Corp. lin. 8. 

 Cetonia : testaceous ; thorax with two black spots ; elytra black, each having a large 

 oblong testaceous spot, and four lateral small round white spots. Length 8 lines. 

 Syn. Oetonia histrio, Oliv. Hist. Ins. 1. 6. 45, tab. 10, / 94. Fabricius Ent. Syst. 2. 152. 



Cetonia versicolor, Oliv. Fabr. var. 1 Schonh. Syn. Ins. 1. 3, p. 131. 

 Habitat. Egypt, (Fabricius). Egypt, and East Indies, (Schonherr). Bengal, (Afus. Hope). 



GYMNETIS C^ERULEA. 



Plate II. fig. 5. 



Genus. Gymnetis, MacLeay. Cetonia p. Fabricius. 



Species. Gymnetis C^erulea : glaberrima, glauca, elytris chalybajis, punctato striatic, maculis 

 albis. Long. Corp. lin. 5J. 

 Gymnetis : very smooth, glaucous, with the elytra chalybeous, striato punctate, and 

 spotted with white. Length 5|- lines. 

 Syn. Scarabajus creruleus, Herbst. in Fuessly Archiv Ins. 4, p. 19, No. 8, t. 19,/. 30. Gmel. 

 Syst. Nat. 1582, No. 382. Oliv. Ent. 1. 6, p. 47, I. 5,/ 31, a. 

 Cetonia 14-maculata, Fab. Syst. Eleuth. 2, p. 156. 

 Habitat. India, (Olivier). Bengal, (Donovan). 



The original specimen of Cetonia 14-maculata, described by Fabricius, is now 

 m the collection of the Rev. T. W. Hope, an examination of which has convinced 



