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SCHIZORRHIiNA TRUNCATIPENNIS. 



' NOTE I. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF CETONIDE FROM 

 THE ARU ISLANDS. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Schizorrhina truncatipennis , sp. n. (ƒ. 



This new species is closely allied to and strongly resem- 

 bles Schizorrhina Whitei Thorns, (rz Emiliae Tlioms. -^j nee 

 White) of the same locality, but can at once be distin- 

 guished by the different shape of the elytra which are 

 broadly truncated posteriorly, and strongly spined at the 

 suture. 



Length 18 mm. ; breadth at the shoulders 9,25 mm. — 

 Entirely of a bright metallic green , spotted and striped 

 with fulvous-yellow in the following manner, which how- 

 ever will probably prove to vary individually as in the 

 allied species: 



on the head: a small spot between the eyes; 



on the pronotum: the thickened lateral margins without 

 however reaching the hind margin , a narrow irregularly 

 edged line on each side, more or less parallel with the 

 lateral margins and divided into three spots of which the ante- 

 rior and intermediate ones are of an elongated shape, the pos- 

 terior one of a transverse triangular shape , and two square 



1) J. Thomson, Archives entomologiques. Tom. I (1857). p. 429; pi. 16, fig. 5. 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. III. 



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