200 (II,. E. JANSiiN 



This sjiL'cii's is iiKist clnscly allied to cincia, Voct, liut aiipcars 

 to iiu' to he sullicit'iitly distinct to lie regarded as a sejiarate 

 species. It is certainly not a variety of tlie South African P. platia. 

 Fai)., as stated to he hy Moser (Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, l'.l()7, p. 3:20). 

 The broader raised side margins of the thora.x , the sjiarse and 

 coarse sculpture of the underside , the black tibiae , tarsi and 

 underside markings, etc., readily distinguish plana from its allies. 



var. tlecepta nov. 



Ill tiiis variety, whicJi should really be regarded as the typic;il 

 form of the species, the yellow portion of the elyti-a is reduced 

 to a transverse band almost similar to that in cincia, but broader 

 and always more or less extended along the outer margin t(nvards 

 tlie shoulders, wiiicli it (piite reaches in some specimens, where- 

 as in cincia the l)and is generally very narrow and with an 

 inclination to extend posteriorly only. The ground colour of the 

 ujiperside is either green or brassy piceous. 



The wide difference in coloration between this variety and 

 ugandensis is apparently constant, as all Dr. Hayon's s|)ecimeiis, 

 and a consideral)le numl)er of others that I have seen from I'ganda, 

 shew no intermediate phases. 



13. l*la.e8ion-liinu, sulja.eii<>t^ Hak. 



Vira, Prov. Buddn, 11)08. Archipel. of Sesse, 1908. 



The oi-iginal examples from Pnngo .\dongo have a distinct 

 greenish gloss on tin- upper sui-face, l)ut this is entiivly absent 

 in all the specimens I liave seen from St. Salvador, Matadi and 

 Stanley Falls, and also in Dr. Dayon's e.xamples. 



14. GriititlAocera. trivittato. Swkd. 



Bulobo, I'.tJO. Kyetume. I'rov. Kyagwe. I '.MID. Entebbe, \W1. 

 (C. Berti). 



(Ì. Irivillata and afzeli, usually consiilercd as specifically 

 distinct, must either hybridize in certain localities or be merely 

 varietal forms of one species, the only distinguishing character, 

 as far as I can discover, is, that in the latter the pale markings 

 are entirely absent, and in tlie series of forty examples in 



