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are of a fine deep green, not shining, the surface 
somewhat rough and corrugated. The under side 
of the body is thickly clothed with tawny hairs, dis- 
posed in tufts round the sides of the abdomen. 
The legs are black. It is a native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
CETONIA MACIiEAYI. 
PLATE XVII. Fig. 2. 
Kirby , Linn. Trans, xii. p. 408, pi. 21, fig. 11. 
This insect is depressed, very smooth and shin- 
ing, of a golden green, approaching to emerald green. 
The head and antennae are black, and the thorax 
has a large discoidal spot of the same colour, which 
is narrowed in front. The elytra have a large 
quadrate spot of black on each side of the scutel- 
lum, and there are two others towards the apex 
which nearly meet and form a broad band. The 
tibiae and tarsi are of a chestnut colour, and the 
segments of the abdomen are margined with black. 
“ This beautiful insect,” says Mr Kirby, in the 
paper above referred to, which has supplied us with 
the annexed figure, “ was brought from Manilla by 
Mr Simon Davidson, Surgeon in the Royal Navy, 
who purchased several of them in a shop, where 
its elytra, and those of some splendid Buprestes , 
were sold as ornaments for ladies head-dresses.” 
