Mr. A. G. Butler on a new Species of Cetonia. 161 XX. — Description of a new Species of Cetonia in the Collection of the Bi'itish Museum. By Arthur G. Butler, F.Z.S., Assistant Zoological Department, British Museum. Schizorhina Nortoni. Clypeus black, elongate, emarginate; thorax shining black, with black margins ; elytra shining 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. Antennse 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 strise on each elytron, not reaching the base, and filled with very short white setse, the two outer striae 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 setae ; femur of hind leg sparsely punctured, the sides not clothed with hair; tibia of foreleg 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 setae 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. 4, 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, Ann.^Mag.N.Hist, Ser.3. Vol.xvi. 12
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