. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. OXYCETONIA. 165 The elytra are strongly puuctate-striate, with the sides strongly siniiated behind the shoulders and the apical angles sharp but not produced. The i^ygidium is coarsely punctured and setose, the metasternum rugose and hairy, and the abdomen sparingly, but coarsely, punctured. The mesostemal process is slightly produced, and broad but not dilated in front. The front tihice are strongly tridentate, and all the femora are fringed with long yellow hairs. The coloration is very variable, but the ground-colour is black and there are usually
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. OXYCETONIA. 165 The elytra are strongly puuctate-striate, with the sides strongly siniiated behind the shoulders and the apical angles sharp but not produced. The i^ygidium is coarsely punctured and setose, the metasternum rugose and hairy, and the abdomen sparingly, but coarsely, punctured. The mesostemal process is slightly produced, and broad but not dilated in front. The front tihice are strongly tridentate, and all the femora are fringed with long yellow hairs. The coloration is very variable, but the ground-colour is black and there are usually the following white markings:—a pair of minute spots upon the neck behind the eyes, a pair at the middle of the pronotum, another at the base (one or both of the latter pairs often absent) and a lateral border on each side, a spot at the apex of the scutellum, from five to eight spots on each elytron, and two (frequently coalescing) on each side of the pygidium. The sides of the sternum are broadly white and there are two rows of large spots on each side of the abdomen. The sexes are almost alike, but the spurs of the hind tibia are rather shorter and sharper in the male. Length 13-15 mm.; breadth Q'5-S mm. Assam: Silhet; Bhutan; Bengal: Calcutta; : Baunu ; Central India : Mhow ; Madras : Kanara, Malabar, Bangalore; Ceylon ; Mauritius ; Madagascar ; Bourbon. Type not traced ; that of variegata in the Kiel Museum ; that of cruenta in the Berlin Royal Museum. The following phases may be distinguished. Var. a. Black, entirely shining, with the prothorax, except a pair of large black discoidal spots (coinciding with the minute white. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Arrow, G. J. (Gilbert John), 1873-1948. London, Taylor and Francis
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