. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 129 Genus GLYCOSIA. Glycosia, Schoch, Ent. Nachr. 1896, p. 80. Ttpe, Cetonia tricolor, Oliv. Mange. India and the Malayan Eegion. Form flattened, rather broad at the shoulders. Head rather small, with the clypeus bilobed and not reflexed at the margin. Prothorax short, narrow in front and broad at the base, with the hind angles well marked, and the base narrowly and abruptly emarginate in the middle. Scutellura small, not very blunt at the apex. Elytra strongly sinuated behind the shoulders. Sternal process prominent, rather compressed and
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. 129 Genus GLYCOSIA. Glycosia, Schoch, Ent. Nachr. 1896, p. 80. Ttpe, Cetonia tricolor, Oliv. Mange. India and the Malayan Eegion. Form flattened, rather broad at the shoulders. Head rather small, with the clypeus bilobed and not reflexed at the margin. Prothorax short, narrow in front and broad at the base, with the hind angles well marked, and the base narrowly and abruptly emarginate in the middle. Scutellura small, not very blunt at the apex. Elytra strongly sinuated behind the shoulders. Sternal process prominent, rather compressed and generally directed obliquely downwards. Legs moderately slender, the front tibia armed with three acute teeth and the hind tibia not digitate at the extremity. cf. The prothorax is broader at the base than in the other sex, and the spurs of the hind tibiae are more slender and acute. Key to tJie Species. 1 (4) Sternal process vertical in front. 2 (3) Pronotum opaque, with red margin . tricolor, Oliv., p. 129. 3 (2) Pronotum shining, black hiplagiata, Arrow, p. 130. 4 (1) Sternal process produced forwards . hictifera, Fairm., p. 131. 107. Glycosia tricolor. Cetonia tricolor, Oliv., Ent. i, 6,1789, p. 88, pi. 12, fig. 116 ; G. ^' P., Monogr. Cet. 1833, p. 245, pi. 46, fig. 4. Glycypbaua tricolor, Burm., Handb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 346. Glycosia plagiata, Schoch, Ent. Nachr. 1896, p. 86; Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1896, p. 376. Black, with the head, legs and lower surface shining, and the prothorax, scutellum, elytra and pygidium opaque ; the pygidium, mesosternal epimera and lateral margins of the pronotum (some- times also the hind margin, except in the middle) blood-red; each elytron decorated near the middle with a large pale yellow patch, irregularly triangular in shape, the base resting upon the outer margin and the apex bent obliquely backwards and nearly reaching the inner margin. There is some- times a Hne of white spots on each side of the abdomen beneath. F\
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