of Malayan Cetoniidce. 559 



In some specimens from Borneo, the yelloAv of the 

 elytra is replaced by black, the yellow-ashy markings 

 being dull ochre ; but I can see no other differences. 



22. Maceonota egregia. Gory & Percheron. 



Macronota egregia, Gory & Perch. Mon. Get. p. 319, 



pi. 63, f. 1. 

 M. hiplagiata, G. & P. ibid, f. 2. 

 M. anthracina, G. & P. ib. p. 324, pi. 64, f. 2. 

 Hab. — Java (B. M., Horsfield) . 



A series of this species in the British Museum shows 

 great variation. Some have the elytra with blood-red 

 spots on the shoulder, or on the middle, and one has 

 small transverse yellowish marks on the elytra, nearly 

 as in J/. Baffies'iana. 



30. Maceonota malabaeiensis, Gcry & Percheron. 



Macronota malabariensis, Gory & Perch. Mon. Get. 

 p. 320, pi. 63, f. 3. 



Tceniodera malabariensis, Burm. Handb. iii. p. 327. 



Hah.—Cejlon, S. India (Gory) ; Sylhet (B. M.) ; 

 Penang, Malacca (Coll. AYall., B. M.) . 



In the Penang specimens, the markings on the elytra 

 are white, and the sutural mark is broadly Y-shaped. 



31. Maceonota Rafflesiana, AVestwood. 



Macronota Ea^lesiana, Westw. Arc. Ent. i. p. 104, 



pi. 28, f. 4 (1842) . 

 Tceniodera histrio, Burm. Handb. iii. p. 326 (1842). 



Hab. — Penang, Sumatra, Malacca, Macassar (Coll. 

 Wall.) (Type, B. M.) . 



This species appears to be extremely variable. The 

 curved yellow border to the thorax is either very bril- 

 liant, or entirely disappears ; in some specimens the 

 yellow colour covers two-thirds of the basal portion of 

 the elytra, and is quite immaculate ; in others faint in- 

 dications of black spots beneath the shoulders appear, 

 and these increase in magnitude till, at length, the whole 

 insect is jet black, with the exception of the few pale 

 transverse marks. I believe Burmeister's T. histrio to 

 be the same species, and, as I cannot ascertain the exact 

 priority of publication, I adopt the name which is illus- 

 trated by a good figure. 



