Descriptions of two new S'pccics of Australian Cetoniidte 

 hy Oliver E. Janson. 



Diaphonia Mniszccliii, n. sjh 



Nigra, iiitida ; capite rugoso, clypeo valcle emarginato ; 

 thorace fiilvo, maculis mediis duabus nigro-piceis ; scutello 

 fulvo, acuminato, piuictato ; elytris fulvis, pimctatis, apice 

 acuminatis; pygidio magno,incrassato, dense ciiiereo-villoso; 

 subtus ciuereo-pilosa. Long. 16 lin., lat. 8 lin. 



Black, thorax, scutelluni and elytra fulvous, the fonner 

 with the posterior margin narrowly edged with black, and 

 tM'o large irregularly shaped spots on the disc pitchy black, 

 tlie base of the scutellum and suture of the elytra also 

 black, 



Jlcad thickly covered with confluent punctures, clypeus 

 deeply emarginate in front, rounded at the sides. 



Thorax coarsely and somewhat thickly punctured with 

 the median line smooth, posterior margin slightly bisinuate, 

 the central lobe emarginate. 



Scutellum punctured at the base, apex smooth and 

 depressed. 



Elytra with the suture depressed, humeral callus large, 

 each with the apical sutural angle produced into a short 

 acute spine, coarsely and shallowly punctured, the punc- 

 tures disposed in two distinct striie on the disc, confluent 

 at the sides and apex, 



Pygidium, underside awil femora thickly clothed with long 

 cinereous pubescence, the former large and swollen : 

 abdomen very concave; apex of mesosternum broad and 

 rounded ; anterior tihiae unarmed, intermediate and 

 posterior slightly curved, the latter with a long ferruginous 

 fringe of haii's on the inner basal half; tarsi very long. 



