Gymnetis Nitida. Glabra viridis, thoracis et elytrorum marginibus testaceis, tibiis haud dentatis, capite spinâ recumbente. (Long. Corp. fere 10 lin.)
Syn. Gymnetis Nitida, MacLeay Horæ Ent.
Cetonia Nitida, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. II. p. 139. 24. Olivier Ent. 1. 6. p. 18. 14. t. 3. f. 16. & tab. 7. f. 56. a, b, c.
Scarabæus N. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. II. p. 552. No. 51. De Geer, vol. 14. t. 19. f. 8, 9.
Habitat: Antigua, St. Christopher's, Jamaica, Maryland, New York, Virginia, &c. (Drury).
Head green, small, quadrangular, and margined. On the front is a tubercle, like a short thick horn; in the middle is another lying flat. Thorax margined, and of a dark green colour, but round the sides of a dirty clay colour. Elytra faintly margined; in some specimens being of a dark green, with a dark orange border on the sides; in others almost entirely of a dark orange, and in others party-coloured. Thorax terminating between the wing-cases, like an obtuse angle; but a microscope discovers something like a scutellum. Breast and abdomen shining green, and not hairy. The femora and tibiæ clay-coloured; but when held in particular positions, seem of a shining green. Posterior trochanters distinct.
MACRASPIS TETRADACTYLA.
Plate [XXXIII]. fig. 7.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: Rutelidæ.
Genus. Macraspis, MacLeay. Cetonia, Fabr. Scarabæus, Linn.