COENOCHILUS MAURUS. 223 



NOTE XXX. 

 ON COENOCHILUS MAURUS, FABR. 



(COLEOPTERA : CETONIIDAE) 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Some time ago the Leyden Museum received from Mr. 

 Jackson Demery, the Liberiau correspondent of Dr. Bütti- 

 kofer, a small consignment of beetles collected at Roberts- 

 port, Grand Cape Mount (Western Liberia). Among these 

 beetles I found a certain number of specimens (males and 

 females) of a Cetoniid which was not yet represented in 

 previous consignments received from that country *). This 

 species proved to be Coenochilus maurus Fabr., of which 

 a description with figures and synonymy ^) is given by 

 Westwood in his splendid » Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxo- 

 niensis" (p. 34, pi. XI, figs. 5 and 5a). 



As, however, Westwood has derived the description from 

 a single specimen (the Fabrician type) and the figure 

 drawn from an other (Gory's typical specimen) whereas I 

 myself have several males and females before me, I can 

 state that Westwood is wrong in supposing the small 

 notch in the lateral margins of the prothorax (see fig. 5) 



1) See my note on Liberian Cetoniidae in Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 

 Dl. XXXI (1888), p. LXXX. (26 species). 



2) Syn.: Cetonia maara. Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth. II, p. 158; Schönherr, 



Syn. Ins. Ill, p 143; Burmeister, Handb. IV, i, p. 568. 

 appendix (nee Burmeister, Handb. Ill, p. 666). 

 Cremast. Paalus. Gory et Perch. Men. Get. p. 112, pi. XV, fig. 

 4 (iiec Burmeister, Handb. Ill, p. 664). 



Notes from the Leyden lMiaseu.rn, Vol. XVIII. 



