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PLATE XXVIII. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF CETONIIDA, FROM 
AUSTRALIA, ASIA, AND THE ASIATIC ISLANDS. 
Genus SCHIZORHINA, Kirby (Linn. Trans. vol. 14, p. 570). 
This genus is arranged by Mr. MacLeay as the head of the 
group which he names Cetoninus, and is regarded as approximating 
to Lomaptera, especially by means of Sch. Brownii, K, which pre- 
sents vestiges of the lobate thorax of that genus. The following 
are Mr. MacLeay’s divisions of the genus. 
A. Elytra broader at the base. 
1. Brunonie, M‘L. Mesosternum produced, narrow, flat; elytra spinose at the apex. 
Type, S. Brownii, K. 
2. Phillipsie, M‘L. Mesosternum broad, flat, lanciform ; elytra with subsinuated sides and 
spinose at apex. ‘Type S. Phillipsii, Schreibers. 
B. Elytra not broader at the base. 
3. Integre, M‘L. Mesosternum short, flat ; clypeus rather entire ; elytra with sinuated sides, 
and no spines at apex. Type, S. frontalis, Don. 
4. Gymnopleuve, M‘L. Mesosternum produced, flat; clypeus emarginate ; elytra with 
sinuated sides, and no spines at the apex. Type, 8S. punctata, Don. 
5, Insulares, M‘L. Mesosternum produced, narrow, cylindrical ; clypeus emarginate ; elytra 
spinous at apex, and with parallel sides. Type, S. cyanea, Oliv. 
The last section receives its name Insulares, because the species 
‘are in general natives of Madagascar, or of the islands adjacent 
to New Holland.” The typical species is, however, a native of 
tropical Western Africa*. ‘The species of which this last section 
is composed in their peculiar colours, and various other particulars, 
‘show us how we may pass to” the genus Coryphe, M‘L. ; 
Gnathocera, G. and P. 
Schizorhina obliquata, W. (Plate 28, fig. 1.)—Supra Jwte aurantia, pronoto maculis 
duabus lateralibus alterisque duabus magnis obliquis irregularibus, in medio connexis, 
nigris; elytris sutura, humeris, maculis duabus parvis ad basin suture, fascia obliqua 
poue medium singuli maculaque sub-apicali nigris vel piceo-nigris, podice flavo, medio 
castaneo, punctis 4 nigris ; corpore subtus antennis pedibusque rufo-brunneis, mesosterno 
abdomineque in medio flavo. 
Obs. Mesosternum (fig. 1 a, 1 6,) vix. porrectum, fere rotundatum 9. Long. corp. lin. 7. 
Inhabits New Holland. In the collection of the Rey. F. W. Hope. 
Note. This species is most nearly related to Sch. punctata, but differs from it in the form of 
the prothorax, of which the hinder angles are rounded off, the more exposed epimera, the 
less sinuated elytra, differently-formed mesosternum, &c. 
Schizorhina Bestii, Parry, MSS. (Plate 28, fig. 2.)—Nigra, capite punctis 3 minutis fulvis, 
medio bilobo, prothorace marginibus Jateralibus et antico flavis, maculis duabus nigris, 
elytris viridanis sutura margineque tenui, macula triangulari humerali, macula quadrata 
discoidaliy fasciaque lata subapicali nigris ; pygidio nigro maculis duabus flavis, abdomine 
infra guttis fulvis mediis duplici serie ordinatis punctisque latevalibus flavis. 9. 
Obs. Mesosternum paullo porrectum latum (fig. 2 6, 2 ¢,) fig. 2 a, maxilla. 
Long. corp. lin. 12. Inhabits Norfolk Island. Captain Best, Mus. D. Parry. Allied 
to Sch. frontalis. 
* See p. 71, note f, as to the true locality of the species. 
