168 ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, had all given ourselves up for the night. I had begun to look out for a rock that would afford the most shelter, and for myself would not have cared. But my companion was toiling a few paces behind ; and she, as 1 afterwards found, had already calcu-lated her strength to keep walking about till dawn, rather than sit down or recline anywhere in the damp and cold, now heavily falling around, and had made up her mind to it. A night upon the mountains may be something to talk about ; it is another thing to endure. And when we have needlessly exposed ourselves to peril of any kind, thoughts of distant home, and children, and friends, will rise up with painful retribution. We had not spoken a word for some time, but kept moving on. We turned one more enormous projecting rock, and suddenly, behold, down, far down in the very depths of the silent gloom, was the gleam of distant lights ! " Thank God !" fervently exclaimed our guide Art. XVI. — Entomological Notes. By Edward Newman. [Continued from Vol, III. p. 501.) Class. — Coleoptera. Natural Order. — Cetoniites, Newman. Genus. — Cetonia, Fabricius. Ceto. Numisma. j^neo-nigra, subtus Icetior : prothorace, ely-trisque punctis, calceo equi simillhnis, impressis : capite, jwo-thoracisque marginibus maculaque singulo angulo posteriori, elytrorum lineis interruptis numerosis, abdominis lateribus, podiceque toto, vestimento cinereo tectis. (Corp. long. *9 unc. ; lat. '5 unc.) Black, with a tint of metallic green ; this tint is more ohservablc on the under than the upper side : the thorax and elytra are im-pressed with numerous marks, bearing, especially on the elytra, an exact resemblance of a horse-shoe ; this mark is not peculiar to this species, various others, as C. aurata, C. affinis, C. obscura. Sec. possessing it, though in a less obvious degree. There is, on
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