206 CETOXIIX.E. 



183. Goliathopsis despectus. (Plate II, figs. 2 & 3.) 



Pilinurgus despectus, Westw.*, Thes. Ent. Oxo7i. 1874, p. 32, 



pi. ix, fig. 3. 

 (S . Goliatliopiis cervus, Jayisrm,* Cist. Ent. vol. ii, 1881, p. 610, 



pi. 11, ff. 4 & o (n. syn.). 

 Goliathopsis capreolus, Gestro* A?i)i. Mus. Genoca, (2) vi, 1888, 



p. 118, fig. (n. sjii.). 



Black, Avith a velvety clothing, olive-brown above and yellowish- 

 grey beneath, decorated with a pale median Hne upon the pro- 

 notuni and scutellum, and two small lateral spots, an intermediate 

 putural one and an apical patch upon each elytron. The head, 

 prothorax and abdomen are moderately, and the elytra very 

 sparsely, clothed with minute erect setas. 



The head is a little hollowed above, and the chjpeus smooth and 

 black. The prothorax is strongly carved at the sides and gently 

 rounded at the base, with the hind angles scarcely perceptible. 

 The eliitra are fiat, slightly and rather irregularly punctured, and 

 separately rounded at the extz-emity. The pugidium is very 

 coarsely punctured, slightly depressed on each side, bare at the 

 apex, and the metasternian and sides of the abdomen beneath are 

 also very coarsely punctured. 



S . The cephalic horns are parallel or slightly divergent, curving 

 upwards and forwards, blunt at the end, with a short exterior branch 

 beyond the middle. 



§ . The horns are represented by slight prominences above 

 the eyes. 



LeiKjth 12 mm.; breadth 6 mm. 



Tenasserim : Moulmein (L. i^(3«) ; Siam. 



Type in the British Museum ; type of cervus in coll. O. E. 

 Janson, and of capreolus in the Genoa Museum. 



This species was found by Pea in May 1SS7, upon flowering 

 bushes. 



Genus CCENOCHILUS. 



Coenochilus, -Sr^awMJ, Germar's Zeitschrift, 1841, p. 268; Westic, Thes. 

 Ent. O.von. 1874, p. 34 ; Lacord., Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 547. 



Type, Cetonla maiira, F. (\V. Africa). 



Ranr/e. The Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. 



Very elongate and more or less narrow- waisted, the prothorax 

 not being closely articulated to the mesothorax. Clypeus broadly 

 dilated in front, with rounded angles. Pronotum subcircular or 

 hexagonal, without sharp angles, and generally about as long as it 

 is broad. Elytra unevenly costate or striate, with the lateral 

 margins strongly excised behind the shoulders. Pygidium gene- 

 rally prominent and convex. Prosternum armed with a rather 



