PLATE XVIL
( O R D E R — C O L B O P T E R A . SECTION—LAMBLLICORNIA.)
J U M N O S RUCKERI. SADNDERS, (TEANS. ENT. SOC. ii. p. 176).
Figure 1, Male ; Figure 2, Female.
Jumnos Itete viridis, politus, vertice tarsisque chalybseis, elytris guttis quatuor flavis, duobus posticis majoribus et
in fasciam interruptam dilatatis.
Jumnos of a brilliant polished green colour, mt h the upper sm-face of the head and the tarsi steel blue ; the
elytra with fom- yeUow spots, the two posterior lai'gest, and forming a broad intemipted fascia.
Length of the insect, I f—1| inches.
luhabits the Himalayas. In the Collection of the British Museum and T. Noms, Esq. (male), and Captain
Parry (female).
OBSEUVATIONS.—The female of this magnificent Cetoniideous insect having been recently received
(for the first time) from the Himalayas, by T. Vernon WoUaston, Esq., of Jesus College, Cambridge,
I have deemed it worthy of a place in this work, and have added a figure of the male from a specimen
presented to the British Museum by H. Gr. Harrington, Esq.* The head is quadrate, and rather wider
in front, especially in the male, which has the lateral margins elevated and rough with unequal
tubercles, the anterior margin smooth and elevated, and the upper surface rough with elevated spots.
The pronotum is very convex, especially in front, in both sexes, the middle of the fore margin swelling
into a rounded space, the sides distinctly margined. The epimera are of moderate size, being but
shghtly visible from above. The mesosternal process is porrected, and almost triangular (fig. 2 a).
The four hind tibite of the male are destitute of the spur' in the middle which is found in J. Roylii,
male.f The fore legs of the female ai-e simple in form, and of moderate length, with the tibiie
3-dentate. The hind tibite in this sex have a short spur in the middle. The maxilla; of the female
agree with those of J. Eoylii, female (Ai'c. Ent. I, pi. 29, fig. 2b), The head of this sex is not rugose
as in the male.
FIGURE 3. HETERORHINxV NIGRITARSIS. HOPE. Female.
" Heterorhina obscm-e smaragdina, clypeo cornuto elytris viridibus femoribus igueo-opaliuis," tarsisque nigris.
Heterorhina obscure emerald green, the fi-ont of the head produced into a short trimcated horn ; the elytra
green, and the femora fiery-opaline colom-ed, and with black tarsi.
Length 10 lines. Inhabits various parts of India.
STNONYMES.—Cetonia nigritai-sis, Hope in Gray's Zool. Misc. i. 24 ; Gnathocera n., Gory and Perch. Mon. Ceton.
pi. 20, fig. 3 ; Heterorhina n., Westwood, Arcan. Ent. i. pi. 30, fig. 7, 7 a and b, and 8 a, b, c, d, p. 133.
Var. Cetouia mutabilis, Hope loc. cit.
OBSERVATIONS.—The male of this species having hitherto alone been described and figui'ed, I am
here enabled to represent the opposite sex by the kindness of Dr. Benson, who has fiu-nished me with
specimens from Landom-. The front of the head is rather more produced and truncated than in the
male, the legs shorter, the fore tibise bispinose, the foiu- hind ones with a central spm-. The mesosternal
process agrees with that of the male. Dr. Benson informs me that the wild indigo is the
ftivomitc resort of this species, as well as of H. Hopei (Ai-c. Ent. I. pi. 33, fig. 3), the female of wliich
he has no doubt is the II. bengalensis (Arc. Ent. pi. 35, fig. 1), as out of hundreds of H. Hopei
which he had seen and taken there was not one female, whereas all the specimens of H. bengalensis
proved to be females. The species ought therefore to take the specific name of the male, H. Hopei.
* Tlie head is wanting in this specimen. The middle feet of the unique female ai-e also wanting. From analogy with J . Roylii
$ I have represented llicm as similar to the hind feet.
•I- Dr. Benson informs mc that Jumnos Royhi is abundant in the hollows of oalcs in the neighbourhood of Landour, and is
frequently taken in flight.
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