Descriptions of two new species of Coleoptera, pertaining to 

 the Families Cetoniidae and Buprestidae : by Oliver E. 

 Janson, 



Lomaptera Higginsii, n. sp. Plate IX., jig. 2. 



L. Depressa, atra nitida; elytris subseriatim punctatis, 

 singulis vittis latis rufis ; abdomine rufo, apice nigro. 

 Long., 31 mm., lat. 13 mm. 



Black, shining, each elytron with a broad longitudinal 

 band extending from the base to the apical callus and the 

 abdomen beneath (excepting the apex of the penultimate 

 and whole of the apical segment) red, club of antennae 

 pitchy. 



Head sparingly punctured, longitudinally strigose at the 

 sides, very convex in the centre, clypeus very deeply and 

 narrowly emarginate in front, margins elevated. 



Thorax sparingly and rather finely punctured in front, 

 disc and base smooth, sides very deeply and irregularly 

 obliquely strigose, especially near the anterior angles ; 

 posterior lobe large, triangular, very slightly rounded at 

 the apex. 



Scutellum scarcely visible. 



Elytra flat, sides almost parallel, slightly narrowed to the 

 apex, with numerous large, shallow punctures arranged in 

 tolerably distinct rows on the disc, obsolete at the base, 

 deeper and confused at the sides and linear towards and at 

 the apex, basal half of the suture depressed, elevated pos- 

 teriorly. 



Pygidiuin finely transversely strigose. 



Beneath, the thorax irregularly strigose at the sides, 

 smooth in the centre ; basal segments of the abdomen 

 remotely and finely punctured in the centre, with numerous 

 large shallow punctures at the sides and on the penultimate 



