CETONIIIIAK lUdM IGANDA '2-^7 



t. ^, ti^^ ('), 7), as intenuediati^' variations coniiinnily ocrur ami 

 11(1 two specimens are precisely aliice, it only encumbers synonymy, 

 and can serve no useful purpose, to attempt to bestowe distinctive 

 names on every slif^lit variation of colour and markings of a well 

 known \ariable species, as some recent authors have been doing. 



2. Oiieloi-i-liina polyjiboiiius Fau. 



Vira, Prov. Buddu, December, 1908. Three specimens. 



3. Dicranorrliiiia ruieans Drurt. 



Bugala, Archipel. of Sesse, December, 1908. Four specimens. 



4. Eudicella g-ralli BuQ. 



Archipel. of Sesse. Vira, Prov. Buddu, July, 1908. Bululo, 

 October 1909. 



Five specimens, vai'ying slightly in the widtii and intensity of 

 the green elytral stripes. 



5. Eudicella smitlii Magi,. 

 var. castanoptera nov. 



Head, tliorax and scutellum olivaceous and more or less tinged 

 with red. Clypeus with the apical horn, in the male, and the 

 antennae castaneous. Elytra rather dull castaneous-red witli a 

 small black spot on the shoulders, the base and suture very 

 narrowly margined with dark sea-green and this narrowly bordered 

 with yellow, the extreme outer margin black. Fnderside olivaceous 

 green, the anterior coxae, the centre of the metasternum, including 

 the mesosternal process, and the sides of the meta-coxae bright 

 sea-green. Legs castaneous-red, the femora tinged with green on 

 tiic under side, apex of the tibiae and the tarsi black. 



Form and sculpture similar to those of smitlii, but the 

 cephalic horn in the male stouter and with the divergent forks 

 al)ruptly and obtusely pointed at the ajiex and not gradually 

 narrowed as they are in smithi, the lateral spines of the clypeus 

 shorter and stouter, the thorax more amply and broadly rounded 



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