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NOTE XVI. 



ON TAENIODERA ÜUADRILINEATA AND SOME 

 ALLIED SPECIES 



OLIVER E. JANSON. 



It has been long evident to me, that several distinct 

 species have been confused under the name of Macronota 

 or Taeniodera quadrilineata , but ovv^ing to the w^ant of suf- 

 ficient material , I have hitherto been unable to arrive at 

 any satisfactory conclusion regarding them. Recently how- 

 ever, by the acquisition of Mr. F. Moore's collection of 

 Cetoniidae , I have secured a good series of specimens from 

 India , and by the courtesy of Mr. Ritsema I have obtained 

 the loan of the various Javanese and Sumatran examples 

 of this group contained in the collection of the Leyden 

 Museum. These, together with other specimens to which I 

 have had access, have enabled me to recognize both sexes 

 of no less than four species , all of which closely resemble 

 one another in general form and coloration , but present 

 structural and otlier characters by which they may be 

 readily separated. 



The first of these species , quadrilineata Hope , was 

 very briefly described in 1831 by that author in his Synop- 

 sis of Nepaul Insects [Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 24 ^)] under 



1) Schaiim maintains (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1844, p. 367; 1849, p. 294) 

 that these brief and useless descriptions of Hope's should be entirely ignored, 

 but I consider where the types are accessible and their identity can be clearly 

 established, the law of priority should be adhered to. The authors of the Mu- 

 nich Catalogue have adopted this course. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. X.IV, 



