On new African Cetoniine Beetles. 525 



LIX. — A few new African Cetoniine Beetles. 

 By Gilbert J. Arrow, F.Z.S., F. K.S. 



[Plate VII [.] 



A FEW of tlie most noteworthy of the unnamed African 

 species belonging to the subfamily Cetoniinjc in the J5ritish 

 Museum Collection are described in the following pages. 



Genus Anagnatiiocera, nov. 



Corpus nitidum, supra parcissime sotosura, subtiis cum capite sat 

 dense villosum. Caput parvura. Clypeus antrorsum angustatus, 

 apice acute bifidus, paulo rellexus. Pronoti basis utrinque 

 leviter ol)li([Uatus, medio profundc excisus. Scutelluin postice 

 acute productum. Elytra post humeros vix sinuati, apice paulo 

 product!, baud spinosi. Processus sterualis latissimus, planus, 

 sutura meso-raetasteruali distinctissima. 



cJ . Tibia autica apice acuta, dente superiori obtusissimo, vix per- 

 spicuo. Abdomen subtus sulcatum. 



$. Tibia antica lata, tridentata. Elytra postice acute producti. 

 Pygidium breve, valde obliquum. Abdomen convexum. 



Anagnathocera dispar, sp. u. (PL VIII. figs. 1 & 2.) 



Viridis, pronoti margiue, elytris, vittis exiguis exceptis, pedibusque 

 partim fulvis, abdominis subtus atque pygidii lateribus albo- 

 maculatis ; capite rugoso, erecte setoso, clypeo antice paulo 

 attenuato, margiiie leviter reflexo, antice bidontato ; pronoto 

 medio parcissime, lateribus fortiter sat crebre, punctato, vix 

 perspicue setoso, lateribus medio obtuse angulatis, ab hinc antice 

 couvergentibus, postice leviter divergent ibus, laevissime sinuatis, 

 basi baud lato, angulis obtusis, rotundatis ; seutcllo modice 

 elongate, postice acuminato ; elytris seriato-punctatis, margine 

 suturali costisque duabus discoidalibus leviter elevatis, lateribus 

 post humeros lajvissime sinuatis, apicibus paulo deplanatis, 

 fortiter punctatis, setosis. 



Long. 17-20 mm. ; lat. 9 mm. 



Rhodesia, Gazaland : Chirinda Forest (G. A. K. Marshall, 

 October). 



The insect liere described, although discovered by 

 Dr. Marshall as long ago as 1905, has remained nndcscribed 

 owing to the difficulty of deciding its true systematic posi- 

 tion. It exhibits a peculiar combination of features which 

 separates it from every group of genera yet formulated in a 

 subfamily the classification of which is exceptionally difficult 

 and perplexing. Although its divergences from G)uithocera 

 are considerable, it appears to mc to have more in common 



