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garded by authors as distinct species. The female 
is destitute both of the frontal and thoracic horn, 
but in other points resembles the male. 
The Goliah Beetle, Scarahieus GoliathuSy is 
highly remarkable both in point of size and 
colour: it is larger in body than the preceding, 
and has a rose-coloured thorax, marked with lon- 
gitudinal black stripes or variegations, and purple- 
brown wing-sheaths: the head is divided in front 
into two forked processes: the limbs are black, 
and very strong. It is a native of some parts of 
Africa. A supposed variety sometimes occurs, in 
which both the thorax and wing-sheaths are of a 
pale yellowish brown instead of rose-colour, and 
are marked with black variegations. 
One of the most common European Beetles is 
the Cockchaffer, or Scaraheeus Mdolontha. Tiiis 
insect is extremely familiar in our own island, 
the larva or caterpillar inhabiting ploughed lands, 
and feeding on the roots of corn, &c. and the 
complete insect making its appearance during the 
middle and the decline of summer. The Cockchaffer 
sometimes appears in such prodigious quantities 
as almost to strip the trees of their foliage, and to 
produce tnischiefs nearly approaching to those of 
the Locust tribe. It appears from a paper l)y a 
Mr. Molineux, printed in the Philosophical Trans- 
actions for the year 1697, that soxne pailicular 
districts in Ireland were overrun by this insect in 
a wonderful manner. The account runs as follows. 
" These insects were first noticed in this kingdom 
in 1688. They appeared on the South-west coast 
