Plate XXX. fig. 4.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Cetoniidæ.
GENUS. CETONIA, _Fabricius_. Scarabæus P. _Drury_. SUBGENUS: Gnathocera,
_Kirby, Gory & Percheron_, (mon. Ceton.).
CETONIA (GNATHOCERA) AFRICANA. Ænea nitens, capitis spinâ incumbente,
sterno porrecto, elytris punctis nigris, striatis. (Long. Corp. 9 lin.)
SYN. Scarabæus Africanus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Syst. Ent. p._
48. 25. _Syst. El._ 2. _p._ 149. 73. (Cetonia Afr.) _Oliv. Ent._ 1. 6.
_p._ 31. _t._ 8. _f._ 70.
Cetonia Smaragdina, _Herbst. Col._ III. _p._ 258. 47. _t._ 32. _f._ 5.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone.
Entirely of a fine green colour, except the tarsi, which are black. The
colour, which is very brilliant, appears not to be reflected from the
surface, but seems as if covered with a fine transparent {58}varnish.
Head quadrangular, margined and furrowed. Thorax smooth and finely
polished. Scutellum large and triangular. Elytra slightly striated, with
punctures, and margined. Sternum long and slender. Tibiæ with two spurs.
This species, according to Mr. Smeathman, frequents flowers; thus
resembling in its habits the British species of the family to which it
belongs.