CETONIA VETUSTA. 123 



NOTE XVII. 

 THREE NEW SPECIES OF EXOTIC COLEOPTERA. 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



1. Cetonia vetusta, n. sp. 



Length 20 mm., width of the shoulders of the elytra 10,5 

 mm. — Coppery bronze; above dull greenish brown, the 

 head shining, rather thickly punctured, raised along the 

 middle, the raised streak narrowed between the eyes, and 

 accompanied there by some yellowish hairs ; the front mar- 

 gin of the clypeus emarginate in the middle and broadly 

 rounded laterally. — Thorax punctate , the punctures large , 

 rather wide apart on the disk , more closely set on the 

 sides; two pairs of minute white dots are present on the 

 anterior half of the disk. The scutellum elongate triangu- 

 lar, impunctate. — The elytra vaguely punctured, nearly 

 impunctate near the scutellum , faintly rugose at the apex ; 

 the apical portion of the suture has on each side an angular 

 keel which is strongly compressed but not prolonged at the 

 end. A few white dots are present on the outer margin , 

 near the suture, and along the middle of each elytron ^). 

 The pygidium is very scabrous, and shows four small yel- 

 lowish white dots arranged in a curved line: two on the 

 basal- and two on the hind margin. — Beneath shining; 

 the sides of the breast and the hind coxae densely sculp- 



1) The arrangement of these dots is almost the same as in the following 

 pecies (see plate 4, fig, 4). 



Notes from thie Ley den IMuseixm, Vol. VII 



