26 DESCRIPTIONS OF 



Head pitchy brown ; clypeus in front emarginate, much and 

 coarsely punctured, the spots decreasing in number in front 

 of and between the eyes ; the vertex quite smooth, side of 

 clypeus at base (canthus) extended like an arch over the mid- 

 dle of the eye, and fringed with ferruginous hairs. 



Thorax pitchy brown, lateral margin not ciliated ; the sides 

 are coarsely and much punctured, the dorsal part is very de- 

 licately and sparingly punctured. 



Scutellum distinct, rounded at tip, and at base impressed 

 transversely close to the slightly produced posterior edge of 

 thorax, the impressed part in front punctured. 



Elytra subferruginous, throughout wider than thorax ; wi- 

 dest in the middle, towards the suture slightly raised ; each 

 elytron with eight impressed longitudinal lines somewhat ar- 

 ranged in pairs, none of them reaching either the anterior or 

 posterior edge ; the three inner at base not impressed, formed of 

 an interrupted line of dots; the sides of the lines are punctured, 

 as are the lateral margins of elytra and the tips, especially at 

 the end of suture, which part is also clothed with short ferru- 

 ginous hairs ; segment between the second and third pair of 

 legs without hairs in the middle. Apical segments of abdomen 

 beneath with a few short hairs on the sides. 



Legs and under side pitchy brown ; femora compressed 

 and punctured. Tibia, anterior dilated at tip and furnished 

 externally with three distinct teeth, the intermediate the strong- 

 est ; at the tip internally there is a strong tooth ; the surface 

 above is punctured, some of the dots being arranged in lines. 



Tarsi and tibia of intermediate and posterior pair of legs 

 with spinous short hairs, the posterior tibia behind the mid- 

 dle with a tuft of flattened spine-like hairs arranged trans- 

 versely and inserted on a projecting part. 



Lamarck in 1801, in his ' Systeme des Animaux sans Verte- 

 bres,' first separated certain species of the Fabrician genus 

 Cetonia, characterized by having short antenna, terminating 

 in a trilamellar knob — no upper lip * — membranaceous man- 

 dibles — and a straight head, with a projecting forked or bifid 

 clypeus (Syst. p. 209). He named this division Goliathus, 

 from the gigantic size of the typical species, first figured and 

 described by Drury, (Illustr. I. pi. xxxi.) in 1770, and in the 



they feed ; in the perfect state they generally subsist on the sap of trees, at 

 the roots of which several species are found. (Gory & Percheron, 'Monog.' 

 p. 21 &c. MacLeay, * Illustr. Annul. S. Africa,' p. 16. Stephens, * Brit. 

 Entom. Mandib.' iii. p. 229). 



1 " Point de levre superieure." In the ' Hist. Nat. des Anim. sans Vert, 

 i v. p. 580, he altered this erroneous character to ** Labrum occultatum" 



