. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. STALAGMOSOM A.—CUILOLOBA. 171 The Itead is finely and rugosely punctured and the pronohmi rather strongly, but not very closely, punc- tured, with the sides regularly rounded and the base deeply emarginate in the middle. The scuteUum is smooth, broad at the base, not long, and rather blunt at the apex. The eh/tra are deeply sculp- tured, with crescentic impressions in front and at the sides and four striae upon the inner posterior part of each, and rugose at the apices; their lateral margins are sinuated, the sutural margins elevated, and the apical a
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. STALAGMOSOM A.—CUILOLOBA. 171 The Itead is finely and rugosely punctured and the pronohmi rather strongly, but not very closely, punc- tured, with the sides regularly rounded and the base deeply emarginate in the middle. The scuteUum is smooth, broad at the base, not long, and rather blunt at the apex. The eh/tra are deeply sculp- tured, with crescentic impressions in front and at the sides and four striae upon the inner posterior part of each, and rugose at the apices; their lateral margins are sinuated, the sutural margins elevated, and the apical angles acute. The ijygidium is finely rugose, the metasternwn a little punctured in the middle and coarsely rugose at the sides, and the abdomen almost smooth. Length 12-13 mm.; breadth 6-6"5 mm. Punjab : Bannu, Murree; Turkestan : Peesia ; Aeabia ; Egypt. Ty2>e in the Berlin Eoyal Fig. 39. Stalagmo^oma albella. Genus CHILOLOBA. Chiloloba, Bitrm., Hanclb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 501; Lacord., Gen. Col. ill, 1856, p. 530. Type, Cetonia acuta, Wied. Range. Throughout India. Body elongate, highly glazed, but more or less clothed, both above and beneath, with yellow hairs. Clypeus produced, narrow, with the middle hne carinate, the sides sloping downwards, the extremity excised, the angles bent upwards and outwards and blunt. Eyes very prominent. Prothorax not very broad behind, with the base deeply excised in the middle and slightly oblique at the sides. ScuteUum long and narrow, with the sides concave and the apex subacute. Elytra deeply sinuated at the sides and strongly spinose at the apices. Sternal process flat and transverse. Eront tibiae tridentate. Mentum very long and narrow, deeply cleft; palpus with the basal joints small and the terminal joint enlarged. Maxilla short and stout, without terminal tuft, both inner and outer lobes armed internally with numerous closely-set spines. Mandible provided with a rather strong, curved and pointed blade, the inner memb
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