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18. Description or a New Species or Ceronta, witn Re- 
MARKS ON THE ALLIED Species. By Artuur G. Butier, 
F.Z.S., Assistant, ZooLoGicaL DeparRTMENT, Britisn Mu- 
SEUM. 
ScHIZORHINA EBENINA. 
Crassa, lata, tota nigro-ebenina ; clypeus elongatus, emarginatus; 
thorax marginatus, a latere depressus ; scutellum triangulare ; 
elytra marginata ; pedes spinosi. 
Clypeus black, elongate, triangularly notched in front, laterally 
reborded, coarsely and densely punctured, depressed behind the 
eyes; mandibles clothed with reddish hairs; eyes lateral, pitchy. 
Thorax shining black, with marginal ridge ; emarginate in front ; 
narrower in front than behind ; nearly as broad as the elytra; punc- 
tured all over, more densely and coarsely at the sides. Scutellum 
shining black, nearly triangular, a patch of coarse punctures on each 
side. Elytra shining black, with a marginal ridge and longitudinal 
equidistant lines of small but regular punctures. Pygidium trans- 
versely wrinkled. Body beneath shining black ; head and centre of 
thorax clothed with black sete; mesosternum compressed, pro- 
duced, abruptly pointed in front; abdomen coarsely punctured. 
Legs black ; femora compressed, those of fore and middle legs 
coarsely and rather densely punctured, that of fore leg densely 
clothed with black setze ; femur of hind leg more sparsely and finely 
punctured ; middle and hind legs with fewer sete ; tibia of fore leg 
compressed, coarsely punctured, outer edge trispinose, inner edge 
with a marginal line of minute black setee and terminated by a long 
spine ; tibia of middle leg cylindrical, coarsely punctured above, 
smooth below, its inner side clothed with black sete, its outer edge 
unispinose, its apex tridentate and unispinose ; posterior tibia elon- 
gate, subcylindrical, strongly punctured except at its apex, outer edge 
unispinose, inner edge clothed with long black hairs, apex tridentate 
and bispinose ; tarsi five-jointed. 
Length 18 lines. 
Hab. Oceania. Exact locality unknown. 
Closely allied to Cetonia flammula (Voyage au Pdle Sud, Zool. iv. 
p- 132, pl. 9. f. 4), but differs from it in the following particulars :— 
The thorax is punctured all over, but much more coarsely at the 
sides ; the scutellum is only punctured at the sides, not at the base; 
the elytra have no red patch, and are distinctly and regularly pune- 
tured. It also differs from the figure of that species in being much 
broader and more robust, the thorax also being much broader in 
front and much more deeply sinuated behind. The legs in the figure 
are so badly executed, and the description of them goes so little into 
detail, that it is impossible to say whether they agree or not. 
Also closely allied to Schizorhina ide, White (Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1856, p. 16, pl. xu1. f. 7), but differs from it in its entirely different 
colouring, greater proportionate length, more perfectly punctuated 
and more distinctly margined elytra, in having the sternum much 
