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Notices of new or little knoum Cetoniid.e ; hy Oliver E. 

 Janson. No. 9. 



Eudicella Trimevi, n. sp. 



9 Bright golden-green, base of head, thorax and scutelhiin 

 with a coppery retlectioa in certain lights, elytra pale yellow, 

 with a slight greenish tinge, a broad sntural and basal border 

 (extending inwardly at the shoulder), a narrow external border 

 and a large round spot near the apex greenish-black, knees, 

 apex and inner edge of the tibite and the tarsi black, underside 

 of the clypeus red, antennae pitchy. Head rather sparsely but 

 coarsely punctured, the clypeus strongly concave on each side, 

 the apical margin sti-ongly retlexed and slightly sinuous. Thorax 

 convex, broadly rounded at the sides, the base tri-sinuate, very 

 sparsely and finely punctured, with a short impressed line on 

 each side close to the anterior margin. Scutellum large, sparsely 

 punctured. Elytra with a row of fine punctures next the 

 suture, the other parts irregularly and very sparsely punctured, 

 the sutural angles slightly pi-oduced. Pygidium coarsely stri- 

 gose. Beneath coarsely punctured and with sparse golden-brown 

 pubescence ; mesosternal process rather l)road and rounded at 

 the apex; abdomen almost impuuctate in the centre, the apex 

 fringed with golden-brown hairs; legs coarsely punctured, an- 

 terior tibia? with two strong lateral teeth. Length 32 ram. 



Umvoti, Natal. 



This beautiful species, of which, unfortunately, I only know 

 the female, appears, so far as I can judge by that sex alone, to 

 be allied to K. Smithi, Macly., but, besides the difference in 

 colour, it is of a more parallel and convex form, with the 

 clypeus more (piadrate and the margins more strongly elevated, 

 the punctiiation, especially of the head and thorax, far more 

 remote, the underside and legs are also less strongly sculptured 

 and the mesosternal process broader and more rounded at its 

 apex. 



The unique specimen which I possess was taken about twenty 

 years since by R. Trimen, Esq., after whom I have narned it. 



