Decade of new CetoniidcB. 203 



Ph. sculptilis in my Thcsaunis, and of those of Ph. gla- 

 herr'irnus in the accompanying" figures, both agreeing in 

 the form of the maxillary palpi. If my conviction be 

 correct, the description, therefore, of the maxillary palpi 

 and the locality of Ul. plnnata a're both incorrect, and my 

 genus Plii/matopteryx must be expunged. If, on the 

 contrary, I)r, Burmeister's descriptions should prove to 

 be correct, it will be a singular instance of two such 

 remarkable and otherwise identical forms occurring in 

 South America and Africa; Ph. sculptilis being a native 

 of Guinea and Ph. glaberrimiis of Lake N'gami. 



Epixanthis maculitarsis, Burm. Handb. iii. p. 58G. 

 (PL III. fig. 5.) 



Lata depressa, nigra, velutina, clypei apice furcato, 

 pronoto Iffiviter punctato," margine omni tenui lineaque 

 media fulvis, elytris fasciis tribus undulatis fulvis, fasciis 

 1 et 2 linea fulva longitudinali connexis margineque pos- 

 tico tenui fulvo ; pedibus nigris, tarsis fulvis articulis 

 apice nigris. 



Long. Corp. lin. 9 ; lat. hum. elytr. lin. 4^. 



Habitat Madagascar. In Mus. Hopeiano, Oxonia3. 



This curiously-marked species from Madagascar has 

 not hitherto been figured. It is broad and depressed and 

 of a velvety-black colour, destitute of gloss ; the head is 

 small and thickly punctured, the fi'ont produced conically, 

 terminating in two small points. The antennas are dark 

 pitchy. The prothorax is broad, with the sides nearly 

 rounded in the middle, behind which they are nearly 

 straight and parallel. The disc is slightly punctured. 

 The entire margin of the pronotum is narrowly fulvous ; 

 the hind margin entire, and gradually rounded in front of 

 the scutellum, and there is a narrow fubous central line, 

 Avidening as it joins the fulvous hind mra'gin. The scu- 

 tellum is obscure with the centre fulvous. The elytra 

 are singularly marked, being divided into areas by narrow 

 fulvous marks, which may be described as forming three 

 irregularly-curved transverse bars, the first broken towards 

 the lateral margin, and the first and second imitcd by 

 a narrow, curved longitudinal line extending from the 

 shoulders. The third of these transverse fascias is also 

 broken in the middle, the suture and hind margin being 

 also narrowly fulvous. The ground of each elytron is 

 velvety-black, with two fine longitudinal impressed lines 



