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the maxillae of the females, the same part being either simple or less 
strongly dentate in the males. Hitherto no species has been 
found which has not the superficies of the body of a shining green, 
or glossed with a fulvous tint, no trace of tomentosity occurring in 
the species. The females have the hind part of the prothorax and 
base of the elytra considerably dilated, and the tarsi, in all the 
known species, are black. The female has the front margin of the 
head nearly straight, with it and the sides margined. 
Species I. (V.) — Ceratorhina ( E .) Daphnis , Buquet, Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, 1835 
(tom. TV.) pi. 2, fig. 3, 4. 
Inhabits Senegal. 
Mr. Melly possesses a specimen exactly agreeing with M. Bu- 
quet’s description; in which the frontal horn, when seen in per¬ 
spective from above, appears to have the two branches curved at 
the tips ; but when seen of their proper form from behind, they are 
nearly straight, like those of C. Morgani. I mention this because 
Mr. MacLeay (judging only from M. Buquet's figure) gives as one 
of the characters distinguishing it from C. Smithii, “ ramis extus 
arcuatis,” which is not the case. 
Species II. (VI.) — Ceratorhina (. E .) Smithii , MacLeay, Cet. of South Africa, p. 34, 
pi. 1, fig. med. 
Taken by Dr. Smith in Africa, near the Tropic of Capricorn. 
Species III. (VII.) — Ceratorhina (E.) Morgani. (Plate 43, fig. 3 4 $). White in 
Mag. Nat. Hist. N. S. 1839f> 24. 
The accompanying figures are made from beautiful specimens in 
the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, natives of Sierra Leone. 
They are of an intense uniform shining green colour, without any 
spots on the elytra by which they are distinguished from the other 
species; with the forks of the horn of the head nearly straight 
and diverging. The female is very broad across the base of the 
elytra, which, as well as in the male, are considerably more 
attenuated towards the tip, than in the other species represented 
in the plate. Fig. 3 a represents the side view of the head, and 
3 b the apex of the horn seen from behind ; 3 c the mandible, 3 d 
the maxilla of the male ; 4 a that of the female ; 3 e the mentum 
of the male (that of the other sex not being quite so broad 
nor so deeply channelled in the middle, the labial palpi being 
thicker in the female); 3 f and 3 g the sternal process, alike in 
both sexes. 
