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



examples of cuthalia from Mamboia. The genital organs of the 

 type form and of the varieties are absolutely alike. 



Length 24-35 mm. (horns excl.) ; width 14-19 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Tugela Eiver) ; Transvaal (Potchef stroom) ; 

 Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Melsetter, Manica). 



Feed on Acacia gum, but is also found on the wounded branches 

 of a species of Combretum ; has never been seen on flowers; about 

 Durban it feeds on the gum of Albizzia fastigiata. The var. cuthalia 

 is found on flowers of Protea (G. A. K. Marshall). 



Eudicella caemelita, Fairm., 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1894, p. lxxxvi. 



Fairmaire has described, loc. cit., a species the habitat of which 

 is unknown, but that he considers to be South African, and which, 

 from the description, appears to be very closely allied to E. smithi. 

 The upper side is chestnut-red, opaque ; the head and the anterior 

 margin of the prothorax are clothed with a dense white-greyish 

 pubescence; the suture of the elytra is vaguely infuscate, and each 

 elytron has a very narrow marginal fuscous line which disappears 

 before the apex ; the pygidium is fuscous with two testaceous 

 macules. In the rnale— the only sex known — the clypeus is armed 

 with a moderately strong and moderately elongate horn bare at the 

 tip which is bifid, and the cephalic lateral horns are moderately 

 short and little diverging. 



The main distinctive characters of this species would thus seem 

 to be the pubescence on the head and clypeus, except the apex of 

 the clypeal horn which is bare, and on the anterior margin of the 

 prothorax, also the absence of dark patches on the elytra. 



I doubt, however, if this insect inhabits the South African area, 

 except on its confines. 



Length 32 mm. 



Eudicella trimbni, Jans., 

 Cist. EntomoL, hi., 1884, p. 103 ; 

 Waterh., Aid., 1890, ii. pi. 182, fig. 1, ? . 

 E. chloc, Raffr., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1885, p. 33. 

 Bright golden-green, extremely shiny, prothorax and elytra 

 looking almost tiavescent ; in the male the clypeus and cephalic 

 horns are dark chestnut-brown, the elytra in both sexes have a 

 verj broad dark bottle-green border invading the humeral greenish- 

 black humeral patch ; this border is continued as a moderately 

 narrow lighter green band along the suture, and outwardly as an 



