Scarabæus Hespera, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Habitat: Brazil.
Antennæ brown. Head black, with a deep yellow stripe down the middle, which is continued across the thorax; that part being black, the sides yellow, whereon is a black spot in the middle. Scutellum yellow and triangular. Elytra black, with a large yellow patch in the middle of each. Podex yellow, the middle being black. Abdomen ringed with black and yellow above; black beneath, with two yellow spots on it. Sternum yellow, extending to the posterior coxæ, which are brown. Posterior femora broad, yellow and brown; the other legs brown.
The specimen here figured appears to differ from the ordinary character of the species in having the thorax more strongly marked with dark yellow.
MACRASPIS FUCATA.
Plate [XLIV]. fig. 4.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: Rutelidæ.
Genus. Macraspis, MacLeay. Cetonia p., Fabricius. Scarabæus p., Drury.
Macraspis Fucata. Atra nitida, thoracis margine omni elytrorumque vittis duabus flavis. (Long. Corp. 10½ lin.)
Syn. Cetonia fucata, Fabr. Syst. El. II. p. 151. 82. Ent. Syst. 1. II. p. 145. 69. Sch. Syn. Ins. vol. 3. p. 158.