GYMNETIS LANIUS. Livida, thorace punctis duobus, elytris maculis plurimis
nigris, sterno antice cornuto. (Long. Corp. fere 1 unc.)
SYN. Scarabæus Lanius, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. II. _p._ 557. _No._ 77?
Cetonia L. _Fabricius Syst. El._ II. _p._ 141. 34. _Olivier Ent._ 16.
_p._ 19. 15. _t._ 2. _f._ 4. _Sloane Jamaica_, II. _tab._ 237. _f._ 7. 8?
HABITAT: Jamaica.
Head quadrangular, with a black margin. Antennæ brown. General colour
dirty clay. Thorax faintly margined, terminating between the wing-cases
in a blunt angle, having four black spots on the top near the head.
Elytra with a great number of black spots of different shapes sprinkled
all over them. Scutellum concealed. Femora hairy. Tibiæ the same, except
the fore ones; all of which are party-coloured, being at the base clay
colour, and at the tips black. The tarsi and ungues black. Posterior
trochanters large and strong. Sternum long, and inclined from the body.
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