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Mr. A. White on some Cetoniadse. 



tion of the disco-cellular, each bordered by white ; at the anal 

 angle of the lower wing are three round black spots, one large. 

 Expansion 2 inches 7 lines. 



In my own collection, from Mexico and the West Indies. 



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XXV. — Remarks on some Cetoniadse, with the description of a new 

 Australian species. By Adam White, E.L.S., M.E.S. Stettin, 

 and Assistant in the Zoological Department British Museum. 



Schizorhina, Kirby. 

 S. (Diaphonia) Bassii, White. 



Yellow; with a black spot inclosing the eye, two roundish 

 black spots on the middle of the thorax placed transversely. 

 Elytra of a deeper and somewhat brownish yellow, with a seri- 

 ceous tinge; three black spots on each elytron, one near the 

 scutellum, a larger transverse one beyond the middle and nearer 

 the side than the suture, 

 and one small subapical 

 one : antennce and legs yel- 

 low ; pygidium yellow, with 

 extremely short, scattered, 

 bristly hairs, the surface 

 "quasi squamiformiter acu- 

 dacta ; " the metathorax 

 and greater part of the 

 abdomen beneath shining 

 black; edges of the seg- 

 ments smooth, the bases 

 punctured ; two largish 



yellow spots placed on the middle of the abdomen ; four yellow 

 triangular spots on the edge of the segments on each side. 



Hab. Australia. -British Museum : from the collection of the 

 Entomological Club. 



The figure by Mr. William Wing gives its correct size and 

 form; in general aorm this species approaches the S. atropunctata, 

 Kirby, Linn. Trans, vol. xii. p. 464 (found first by Robert Brown, 

 F.R.S., on Mimosas near Port Jackson), more than any other 

 Cetonia ; and I must confess that until Dr. Schaum attracted my 

 notice to it, it was placed with that species in the collection of the 

 British Museum, being regarded as a variety of the female : it 

 certainly seems to be in some sort the connecting link between 

 Diaphonia, Newman, and Schizorhina, Kirby, as restricted by 

 Dr. Burmeister. 



The head, as in the subgenus Diaphonia, very slightly cleft in 

 front ; the sides nearly parallel, upper surface flat, rather coarsely 



