TWO NEW SPECIES OF BEETLE. 29 



Goliathm (Eudicella) Morgani. 



G. {Eudicella). Nitide viridis, thorace subaeneo, pedibus aeneis. 



Mas clypei cornu medio valde elongato, depresso porrecto-elevato, paulo 

 recurvo, piceo-rufo, supra (basi apiceque exceptis) lutescente. Hab. Sierra 

 Leone. Rev. D. F.Morgan. Mus. Brit. 



Head green, coarsely punctured ; clypeus very much pro- 

 duced ; porrecto-elevated and slightly recurved, flattened and 

 deeply forked at the tip, the prongs nearly straight and fur- 

 nished on the posterior side at the tip with two blunt, slight 

 tubercular elevations ; on one of the prongs in the specimen 

 described there is a more distinct internal tooth. The basal part 

 of pedicel ferruginous brown, the fork above pale yellowish 

 brown, beneath reddish brown, the tips with the small teeth, 

 black; base of clypeus with two excavations, the sides of which 

 are produced in front into a somewhat acute brown tooth, di- 

 rected forwards and upwards. 



Antenna dark brown, situated close in front of the eye, 

 basal joint sub-globular, largest, distinctly dotted, third, fourth 

 and fifth with irregular, rather deeply impressed dots on the 

 basal parts ; inner joint of knob, hairy on the outside. 



Trophi brown, the apical lobe of maxilla with ferruginous 

 hairs. Mentum bright green, dotted, at base apparently 

 rounded and rather deeply excavated, in front notched, densely 

 hairy, having the sides towards the front sinuated. 



Thorax above and below of a bright shining green with 

 coppery reflections, broad behind, in front narrowed and dis- 

 tinctly sinuated for reception of head; the front and sides dis- 

 tinctly margined ; posteriorly at insertion of scutellum there 

 is a slight somewhat sinuated lobe, with a short transverse 

 impressed line in front of the angles. The surface above is 

 most delicately punctured, the puncturing most distinct in 

 front, the raised lateral edges being free from dots. Scutellum 

 almost equilateral, bright green. 



Elytra of the same shining green as thorax, but with little 

 if any metallic reflection ; the shoulders have a few irregular 

 ferruginous marks ; the surface most delicately punctured, 

 and having about twelve longitudinal lines of impressed dots, 

 the line on each side of suture being the most distinct ; the 

 sutural part of elytra at base depressed, the sides of suture 

 towards the middle raised, and at the tip poduced beyond 

 the plane of the elytra, lateral margin of elytra raised ; brown 

 with ferruginous hairs. 



Body beneath green with coppery reflections, the margins 

 of the segments, as well as an abbreviated line on the pro- 

 ducedbasal segment of abdomen, ferruginous. Apical segment 

 green. 



