ON MACRONOTA APICALIS. 81 



NOTE XVIII. 

 ON MACRONOTA APICALIS, G. & P. 



BÏ 



J. R. H. NEER VOORT van de POLL. 



Among the Macronota's described and figured in Gory 

 and Percheron's » Monographic des Cétoines (1833)" there 

 is a small species from West-Africa , viz. : Macronota api- 

 calis G. & P., which, though with some doubt, was placed 

 by the authors in the genus Macronota, composed of 

 Asiatic species only. 



Our advanced knowledge of the distribution of Cetoniid 

 genera induces us to consider the occurrence in West- 

 Africa of a species , belonging to an exclusive Asiatic 

 genus, a fact of much doubt. Moreover tbe figure of M. 

 apicalis is not at all representing the peculiar facies of a 

 Macronota, but looks much more like a Glycyphana with 

 a slightly lobed prothorax. 



Burmeister, in his »Haudbuch der Entomologie 111(1842)" 

 mentions this species , which was not known to him , no 

 less than three times. Firstly he supposes (p. 330), that 

 M. apicalis G. & P. does not belong to the genus Macro- 

 nota, but probably ought to be ranged in the genus Gly- 

 cyphana. On p. 351 , in an annotation at the end of the 

 discription of Glycyphana impar G. & P. , he says : » I 

 suppose, Macronota apicalis G. & P. belongs hereto." Fi- 

 nally having established the genus Discopeltis for D. tri- 

 color Burm. J ), he writes (p. 600): »the only species I 



1) Burmeister described Discopeltis tricolor from a specimen in Mr. Sommer's 

 collection , which was obtained afterwards by Dr. Baden , and has passed now 

 in my possession. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XI, 



6 



