Descriptions of new Species of Australian Cetoniidm: by 

 Oliver E. Janson. 



Hemipharis torrida, n. sp. 



? . Castanea, fere opaca, capite thoraceque siibtilissime 

 pimctatis, clypeo profimde emarginato, marginibus elevatis, 

 tibiis intermediis et posticis muticis. Long. .14 lin., lat. 

 8 lin. 



Castaneous, sub-opaque, owing to its surface being very 

 densely covered with minute punctures visible only under 

 a lens. 



Head finely and remotely punctured, clypeus deeply 

 emarginate in front, the margins elevated. 



Thorax with the posterior lobe produced and semi- 

 circularly emarginate above the scutelluni, very faintly and 

 remotely punctured. 



Scutellum faintly punctate at the base. 



Elytra finely and remotely punctured, the punctures 

 very faint at the base, but distinct and arranged in rows on 

 the apical two thirds, the sutural row and the one nearest 

 the margin most distinct, apex strigose, the suture depressed 

 behind the scutellum, but elevated posteriorly and termi- 

 nating in an acute point at the apex. 



Pi/gidiicm acuminate, finely transversely strigose. 



Abdovioi beneath remotely punctured at the sides, 

 smooth in the centre ; mesosternal process long, flat ; 

 femora and intermediate and posterior tibiae with a fringe 

 of short black hairs on their inner margin, anterior tibiae 

 armed externally with two very acute teeth, the others 

 simple. 



N. W. Australia (Nicol Bay). Coll. Sharp, Higgins. 



Closely allied to ff. castanea, 0. Jans., but differs in its 

 broader and more convex form, the finer and sparser 

 punctuation of its head and thorax, its unarmed inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae, and in the absence on the 

 penultimate abdominal segment of the peculiar punctuation 

 which characterises the female of that species. Its colour, 

 form, more acutely margined clypeus, the broad emargina- 

 tion of the posterior lobe of its thorax and sparse punctua- 

 tion will serve to distinguish it from H. atripennis, Macl. 



