1% CÜTUNIA BIFIDA. 



NOTE xxvm. 



SYNONYMICAL REMARK ABOUT 

 CETONIA BIFIDA OLIV. 



BY 



J. Z. KANNEGIETER. 



In a paper on the Australian Schizorrhinidae Dr. 

 Kraatz established a. o. a new genus Dysephicta (Deuts. Ent. 

 Zeitschr. XXIV, p. 208) for the reception of Cetonia bifida 

 Oliv. (the Schizorrhina bifida of G. & P., Schaum and the 

 Munich Catalogue), which was said to be from India or. 

 The type specimen of G. & P. having now passed into 

 the possession of Mr. Oberthiir, it has, however, turned 

 out to be, instead of an Indian insect, the well-known 

 Anochilia republicana Ooq. from Madagascar, for which 

 Dr. Kraatz has proposed the new generic name Coquerelia 

 (1. c. p. 314). About this genus Mr. 0. E. Janson remarks 

 at the end of his description of Anochilia incilis (Cist. Ent. 

 Ill, p. 147), »the characters given by Kraatz to distin- 

 guish his genus Coquerelia from Anochilia are evidently not 

 of generic value , as they almost entirely fail in this species." 

 The synonymy of G. bifida consequently may be esta- 

 blished as follows : 



Anochilia bifida Oliv. 



Cetonia bifida Oliv. 



Schizorrhina bifida G. & P. 



Schizorrhina bifida Schaum. 



Dysephicta bifida Kraatz. 



Anochilia republicana Coq. 



Coquerelia republicana Kraatz. 

 It is worthy of note that Thomson in his list of types 

 of Gory & Percheron (Typi Cetonidarum , p. 36) correctly 

 referred this insect to Anochilia. 



Amsterdam, July 1891. 



JNTotes irom the Leyden Museum , Vol. X!III. 



