266 Mr. A, White on some Cetoniadse. 



roughly figured in the Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist, for 1845, 

 vol. xv. p. 40. 



Aphelorrhina simillima, Westw., which, led by the name and 

 authority of Dr. Schaum, I placed after Dymusia, should be 

 placed after Stephanorhina guttata, and may after all prove, like 

 many pseudo -called species of Onthophagus, only a starved variety 

 of the male of Stephanorhina guttata, or at least of a closely 

 allied species. It would be well for naturalists to read the ad- 

 mirable remarks of M. Mulsant of Lyons, at pp. 103 and 104 

 of the volume of the ' Hist. Nat. des Coleopteres de France/ 

 describing the Lamellicorn Beetles (Paris, 1842). 



The Rhomborhina dives of Westw., as Dr. Schaum pointed out, 

 is the R. Mellii of Gory and Percheron, but not of Burmeister. 



On p. 6 add B.M. to Anomalocera Parrii, as we have lately 

 received a specimen. This genus seemed hardly separable from 

 Coryphocera. 



At p. 7, and after C. arncena, add Coryphocera tibialis, Westw., 

 India, lately acquired ; and Coryphocera glaberrima, Westw., 

 India, also lately added. 



At p. 9, Allorrhina affinis and A. confinis are regarded by Dr. 

 Schaum as only local varieties of Allorrhina scabriuscula, and as 

 he has seen more specimens than myself, I believe he is right. 



At p. 10 add B.M. Honduras to Cotinis cavifrons, Dup., Burm., 

 which I had regarded as a new species of Allorrhina, and named 

 A. trisulcata. I question whether the genera Tiarocera and 

 Allorrhina are distinct enough from Cotinis, and this remark 

 would extend to other genera of Cetoniadce. 



Page 11 : Gymnetis Vigorsii, Dr. Schaum regards as only a 

 variety of the preceding species, G. undulata, Vigors ; there are 

 some other alterations he would make in the genus Gymnetis, 

 but from not having many specimens, I can neither confirm nor 

 resist these changes. The genus, or rather group, wants revi- 

 sion very much. 



Page 14: between Gymnetis strigosa and G. hieroglyphica is 

 placed Gymnetis Dysoni, White, a species with the head, thorax 

 above and elytra of a yellowish rhubarb or rather tile- colour 

 (elytris, thoraceque supra flavescenti-lateritiis), spotted and 

 marked with black, differing in different specimens, the head 

 margined with black and with a black spot on the middle, the 

 legs and under parts deep shining black, the sternum projecting, 

 somewhat curved downwards, and very blunt and widened at the 

 end. 



As Dr. Schaum has a specimen, an elaborate description may 

 be expected from him. I may merely say that it was found in 

 Venezuela at Curiaiia, twenty-four miles from La Guayra. Mr. 

 David Dyson told me as a curious circumstance, that when shoot- 



