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NATURAL HISTORY. 



DECEMBER, 1838. 



Art. I. — Description of the Male of Goliathus torquatus, an In- 

 sect belonging to the Order Coleoptera and Family Cetoniidae. By 

 G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., Curator to the Museum of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society, M.E.S. 



In Drury's 'Illustrations of Natural History,' vol. iii. p. 60, 

 under the name of Scarab&us torquatus is described a beau- 

 tiful species of Lamarck's genus Goliathus. The insect from 

 which Drury's description is taken, and of which a figure is 

 given, (see pi. 44, Jig. 1 of the work quoted), is fortunately 

 still in existence, and graces the rich collection of Mr. Mac- 

 Leay. The specimen is a female ; and as the structure of the 

 tibiae and clypeus of the male sex have hitherto furnished the 

 chief characters upon which the subgenera of Goliathus have 

 been established, I gladly avail myself of the loan of a male 

 specimen to complete the account of this splendid insect. 



This specimen, I may observe, forms part of a collection 

 of rare and interesting insects brought by Lieut. Strachan from 

 Sierra Leone : and this gentleman informs me that the spe- 

 cies must there be extremely scarce, since the individual from 

 which the following description is taken, was the only one 

 he had ever seen ; and upon its being shown to Mr. Fergus- 

 son, the staff surgeon, who has resided at Sierra Leone up- 

 wards of twenty years, and who had seen all the collections 

 which had been formed in the neighbourhood during that 

 time, he was perfectly unacquainted with the species. 



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