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is Eastern India, and of the latter the island of 

 Mauritius, from whence I have received it. An- 

 other species from Travancore is closely allied to 

 the above, and in the collections of the Continent 

 other allied species appear confounded under the 

 same name. 



Sp. 120. Gloriosa. — This insect is another ex- 

 ample of a species described by Olivier as well as 

 Fabricius ; the latter writer has given it the name 

 of Melolontha Dorcyi. 



Sp. 121. Maura. — Now a Cremastocheilus ac- 

 cording to Messrs. Gory and Percheron. The true 

 type of that genus is C. Castanese Knoch, an Ame- 

 rican insect. Perhaps of all the genera of the Ce- 

 toniadse, less attention has been paid to this genus 

 by the above writers, than might have been ex- 

 pected. Mr. MacLeay some years back gave the 

 name of Genuchus to an African insect described 

 by Fabricius as Cetonia cruenta, and Mr. Kirby, in 

 the 14th volume of the Linnean Transactions, some- 

 time afterwards detailed the characters. Genuchus, 

 as a genus, is closely allied to Cremastocheilus, but 

 is evidently distinct ; it represents in Africa the 

 Cremastocheili of North America. There is also a 

 very marked form which connects in my opinion 

 Cetonia and Genuchus ; I allude to two species 



