Pelidnota testacea, Deg. Cat.

Habitat: Brazil.

Brown. Thorax margined. Scutellum small and semi-circular. Elytra margined, and faintly striated. Anterior tibiæ dentated. Tibiæ with two spurs, except the fore ones, which have only one.

RUTELA LINEOLA.

Plate [XLIV]. fig. 3.

Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: Rutelidæ.

Genus. Rutela, Latreille. Scarabæus p. Drury. Cetonia p. Fabr.

Rutela Lineola. Nigra, lineâ a capite ad scutellum ductâ, lateribusque flavis, elytrorum plagâ magnâ flavidâ. (Long. Corp. 7½ lin.)

Syn. Scarabæus Lineola var. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. II. p. 552. 53. Fabr. Syst. El. II. p. 145. 53. (Cetonia L.) Syst. Ent. p. 46. 17. Oliv. Ent. 1. 6. p. 78. 98. t. 11. f. 106. var. β.

Cetonia Ephippium, Fabr. Mantiss. 1. p. 29. 31.