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basal segments. Tlie smaller specimen sent me by Mr. Melly had the horns of the head 
rather shorter, the spots of the elytra more confluent, the four hind legs entirely fulvous, the 
anterior tibiae with the sinuations more distinctly marked so as to give them more the 
appearance of being tridentate (fig. 1 g ), and the four hind tibiae more serrated (fig. 1 h, 1 i). 
The maxillae in this specimen were of a similar form to those of the larger specimen figured in 
the plate. 
Section 4. —TAURHINA, Burmeister. 
This section is distinguished from the last by its splendid metallic 
colour and by its fore tarsi being destitute of an apical brush, and 
from the following by, having the hind part of the head, in the 
males, produced into a broad curved horn (pi. 45, fig. 2 a), whilst 
the centre of the front margin of the clypeus is porrected in the 
shape of a thick obtriangular horn; the front of the clypeus of 
the female (pi. 45, fig. 2 d, from Scliaum) is not straight. The 
inner lobe of the maxillae is simple in the males: (I have not seen a 
female in nature). The anterior femora and tibiae, in the males, 
are singularly constructed, evincing an approximation to the 
internally serrated tibiae of some of the preceding species. The 
sternal process is broad and somewhat triangular at the tip, which 
is more porrected than in the last group (fig. 2 5, 2 c). The 
abdomen is channelled beneath, and the pseudonychiae are distinct 
but very minute, the unguiculae being scarcely visible. 
Species I. (XII.)— Ceratorhina (7\) Nxreus (Plate 45, fig. 2.) 
Syn. — Dicranorhina Nireus , Schaum. Anal. Ent., p. 40, tab. annex. $ <j>. Bur¬ 
meister, Handb. d. Ent., Vol. 3, p. 190. 
This beautiful species inhabits Guinea. The only specimen I 
have yet seen is in the collection of Captain Parry of Cheltenham, 
who has kindly permitted me to illustrate it in this work. 
Section 5. —CCELORRHINA, Burmeister . 
The type of this section exhibits equally splendid colours with 
Taurhina, from which it differs in the armature of the head of the 
male, which is thus described by Mr. MacLeay, who, I believe, 
alone possesses this sex:—“ Clypeo antice concavo, cornu medio 
brevi recurvo, apice dentato, triangulum obversum simulante.” He 
also describes the anterior tibiae as having no teeth externally or 
internally. The female has the head unarmed, with the front 
margin of the clypeus slightly emarginated ; the inner lobe of the 
maxillae is strongly toothed; the front margin of the mentum is 
deeply incised; the anterior tibiae are tridentate, and the four 
posterior ones have a tooth on the outside, beyond the middle. 
The sternal process is of the same form as represented in pi. 45, 
fig. 3 a, 3 5. 
