Mr. A. White on some Cetoniadae. 341 



distinguished by Professor Owen as characteristic of the Miocene 

 or of the Drift *, it is sufficient that his eye at once recognized it 

 as a fossil form. I was careful to ascertain the exact details of the 

 spot wherein it was imbedded. The pit was near the top of one 

 of the highest hills in Kent, on or near which was no diluvium 

 whatever, and a vegetable soil of hardly appreciable thickness. 

 There was no fissure, nor would any disturbance of the bed have 

 been noticed without very close inspection. That inspection 

 however showed that there had been some displacement, which, 

 though the two walls were then so close that the blade of a knife 

 could not be inserted, had doubtless once yawned, and thus en- 

 abled this mammalian fossil of the tertiary beds to lodge deep 

 down in what it might be hard to persuade many was not solid 

 undisturbed chalk. It was middle chalk on each side of the 

 line, so that the amount of relative displacement could not be 

 ascertained. The tooth was found about twenty feet from the 

 present surface. 



I have thus endeavoured to call the attention of observers to 

 some of the conditions which should be borne in mind by those 

 who, in investigating the chalk formation, geologically or palse- 

 ontologically, would avoid the danger of making the " labyrinth " 

 of their fellow-labourers more " dense " by the accumulation of 

 " false facts." 



XXXIII. — Description of Clinteria Hoffmeisteri, a new species of 

 the family Cetoniadse, from North India, By Adam White, 

 F.L.S., Assistant Zool. Dep. British Museum. 



Cetonia (Clinteria) Hoffmeisteri. 



C. viridescenti-fusca supra obscura, subtus nitida; pilosa; thorace 

 albo-marginato, lineaque media alba ; scutello albo ; elytris albo- 

 marginatis margine interna linea alba, ramulos 2 aut 3 emittente, 

 vitta submarginali rubra, et linea subinterrupta subobliqua me- 

 diana ; margine suturse postica vitta alba interrupta ; pygidio albo, 

 brunneo margin ato. 



Hab. in India. Mus. Brit, et M E. India House." Dr. Horsfield. 



Head cupreous ; antennae reddish ; legs and the under parts 

 of a dark purplish coppery red, without spots, clothed with long- 

 ish ochrey gray hairs ; the hairs similar in colour on the upper 



as, though they are shivered, the strata have not been dislocated and do not 

 therefore affect the present point. They are of course evidence of some 

 powerful agitation, which was probably the same which, in other spots, pro- 

 duced these faults. 



* Brit. Foss. Mammals, pp. 383, 392. 



