688 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



There are two species figuring in the Catalogue of Munich, i.e., 

 Pachnoda carbonaria, Gory, and Pachnoda fimbriate/,, Thunb., which 

 I have not seen. The former is in the Museum of the University at 

 Oxford, and Professor Poulton assures me that it is from the Cape, 

 and was captured by the well-known traveller Burchell. 



Mr. O. E. Janson informs me that he has cleared up the identity 

 of these two species, which he declares to be South African, but his 

 paper has not yet been published. 



Cetonia (Pachnoda) carbonakia, Gor. and Perch., 

 Monogr. Cet., 1833, p. 240. 



"Body in the shape of an elongated square, rounded; clypeus 

 quadrate, marginate, slightly sinuate along the anterior margin, 

 gibbose on the upper side ; prothorax semicircular, scooped opposite 

 the scutellum, this last part large ; sternum lenticular ; elytra 

 rounded externally at the end ; upper part of the body deep brown, 

 clypeus and underside brownish red ; the lateral and abdominal 

 segments seem to be marked with white. The bad state of pre- 

 servation of the example we have before us prevents us from 

 describing exactly their number and position. 



Hab. Africa. 



From the collection of Mr. Hope, of London. 



Length 11 lin." 



From the figure of Gory and Percheron I would not be surprised 

 if this example was a very dark example of P. rufa, if not a melanic 

 aberration of the same. I received an example having on the 

 discoidal part of the elytra and reaching the outer margin a very 

 large black macule or band. Schaum (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr\, 1819), 

 who inter alia states that the insect is no longer in the Hope 

 collection, questions also whether it is not a specimen of C. rufa 

 (carmelita, olim) that has turned black or is badly preserved. 



Cetonia (Pachnoda) fimbeiata, Thunb., 



Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 417. 



I have not been able to obtain the description of this species. 

 Schaum says (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1844, p. 384) : " Paelinoda 

 fimbriata, Thunb., which Burmeister unites doubtfully to P. cincta, 

 does not seem to be the same. Thunberg says nothing of the white 

 spots on the under side ; he says expressly that the pectus and the 

 legs are green, and as he states that the scutellum is very short, his 

 description cannot apply to P. inarginclla, Fabr." 



