Mr. A. G. Butler on a new Species of Cctonia. 1G1 



XX. — Description of a new Species of Cetonia in the Collection 

 of the British Museum. By Arthur G. Butler, F.Z.S., 

 Assistant Zoological Department, British Museum. 



Schizorhina Nortoni. 



Clypeus black, elongate, emarginate ; thorax sinning black, with 

 black margins ; elytra sliining black, sulcated, the stria broad and 

 clothed with short white hair, apices of elytra coarsely pilose. 



Clypeus large, black, smooth, elongate, cylindric, emarginate 

 in front, densely punctured, with black, opake, elevated lateral 

 margins. Eyes lateral, pitchy. Antenna? black. 



Thorax smooth, very finely punctured, densely near the mar- 

 gins, shining black, with black edges ; anterior portion narrower 

 than the posterior, and somewhat depressed at the sides so as to 

 form an obtuse keel ; hinder portion a little narrower than the 

 elytra, with trisinuate hind margin. 



Scutellum very large, smooth, nearly triangular, black. 



Elytra smooth and shining, nearly covering the abdomen, a 

 little narrower at the apex than at the base, with four longitu- 

 dinal smoothly hollowed stria? on each elytron, not reaching the 

 base, and filled with very short white setae, the two outer stria? 

 meeting at the apex, and filled at their apical terminations with 

 very long golden-yellow hairs, which extend beyond the ab- 

 domen. 



Body shining black beneath; head, thorax, and sides of abdo- 

 men clothed with coarse golden-yellow hairs ; sternum produced, 

 compressed, subtriangular. 



Legs black ; femora compressed, those of fore and middle legs 

 densely punctured and sparsely clothed with short yellow seta? ; 

 femur of hind leg sparsely punctured, the sides not clothed with 

 hair; tibia of fore leg short, compressed, strongly punctured, 

 outer edge trispinose, inner edge with a marginal line of minute 

 yellow hairs, and terminated by a long spine ; tibia of middle 

 leg cylindrical, finely and sparsely punctured, a few yellow seta? 

 extending half along its inner side, apex quadrispinose; posterior 

 tibia elongate cylindrical, outer edge coarsely punctured and 

 bluntly unispinose in the middle, the remainder smooth ; inner 

 edge clothed with long, straight, yellow hairs; apex quadri- 

 spinose : tarsi five- jointed. 



Length 16 lines. 



Habitat. Sydney. 



Closely allied to S.Philipsii, Schreib. (Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. vi. 

 p. 193, t. 20. fig. 1, Gory, Monog. Ceton. p. 158, pi. 27. fig. 2), 

 from which it differs in being altogether longer and much 

 larger, and more quadrate ; the clypeus being longer, narrower, 



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