ON MACRONOTA APICALIS. 83 



my copy, whilst they ought to be black according to the 

 description). At the same time it became evident, that 

 Burmeister, at last , very correctly had referred this species 

 to his genus Discopeltis. 



D. apicalis G. & P. is allied to D. lateralis Gerst, from 

 Zanzibar, and to the more recently described D. aberrans 

 Jans, from Angola , and D. capucina Gerst, from the Ca- 

 meroons, the two latter species I know however from 

 description only. 



The description of Gory & Percheron being very super- 

 ficial and incomplete, I think it might be useful to give 

 a detailed description of my specimen. 



Discopeltis apicalis G. & P. 



Macronota apicalis G. & P. Monographic des Cétoines. 



p. 327. t. 64. f. 7. 

 ? Glycyphana apicalis Burin. Handbuch der Entomologie. 



III. p. 330 & 351. 

 ? Discopeltis apicalis Burm. Handbuch der Entomologie. 



III. p. 600. 

 Macronota apicalis Schaum. Ann. Soc. Ent. de France. 2 e 



Sér. t. II (1844). p. 369. 

 Gametis apicalis Thorns. Typi Cetonidarum. p. 36. 



9. Head black, slightly shining, with a coarse and con- 

 fluent punctuation at the sides, the clypeus finely punctu- 

 red, a faint longitudinal ridge along the centre; clypeus 

 depressed at the sides, the apex rounded and emarginate 

 in the middle. Antennae entirely black. 



Prothorax dull black, broadly margined along the sides 

 with dull red ; convex , frontmargin slightly prominent , 

 the base produced into an obtuse point over the scutel- 

 lum , sides broadly rounded , somewhat prominent in the 

 middle , obsoletely punctured near the anterior angles. 



Scutellum dull black , the top strongly produced and acute. 



Elytra dull rusty red , with a lunated dull black patch , 

 common to both, just before the tip and extending along 



Notes from the .Leyden. Museum, "Vol. XI. 



