82 ON MACRONOTA APICALIS. 



have examined, is a native of Guinea, and therefore I 

 suppose that Macronota apicalis G. & P. , which I have 

 placed formerly in the genus Glycyphana as I did not yet 

 know Discopeltis tricolor, must take its true place in this 

 genus." 



In the Munich Catalogue these quotations of Burmeister 

 are omitted. 



Schaum discusses the views of Burmeister in his » Obser- 

 vations critiques sur la familie des Lamellicornis Mélito- 

 philes (Ann. Soc. Ent. de France. 1844. 2 e Sér. t. II)" 

 and considers the characters , which distinguish M. apicalis 

 from the genus Macronota , too trifling as to justify a se- 

 paration. 



The type specimen of M. apicalis, which belonged to the 

 collection of Count Dejean , is now in possession of Mr. J. 

 Thomson, who has published in his »Typi Cetonidarum 

 (1878) p. 36" a list of the types of Gory & Percheron 

 preserved in his collection , and among them he enumera- 

 tes a Gametis apicalis. The position assigned to this insect 

 by Thomson , without any further explanation , neither 

 pleads in favor of his accurate observation, nor for the 

 homogeneity of his genus Gametis. 



I have failed to find any further annotations about this 

 interesting species , which seems to be a great rarity , for 

 although I have visited the greater part of the more im- 

 portant Musea and private collections in Europe, I never 

 saw a specimen of it. Great was therefore my delight, as 

 I observed, on opening a drawer with Cetoniidae of Dr. 

 Baden's collection , which I recently purchased , an insect 

 which directly called to mind the figure of M. apicalis 

 G. & P. After a careful examination with the description 

 and figure, little doubt remained as for its identity, the 

 only appreciable difference being the red border of the 

 thorax, which does not extend along the front- and basal- 

 margin in my specimen. (Here I must observe that the 

 description and figure of G. & P. are somewhat in contra- 

 diction , the legs being yellow on the plate, at least in 



^Totes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. XI. 



