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strongly produced over the scutellum ; the upper basal 

 portion distantly punctured, the punctures almost absent 

 in the centre and becoming larger and more numerous 

 near the sides , which , as well as the reflexed front por- 

 tion and the median excavation, are very closely, confluently 

 and roughly punctured and strigose. 



Scutellum elongate-triangular , rounded at the tip. 



Elytra gradually slightly narrowed towards the tip , 

 where they are broadly rounded and truncated, the sutu- 

 ral costae rather strongly elevated behind the middle; 

 closely but very minutely punctured all over. 



Pygidium opaque, finely but very thickly rugosely punc- 

 tured , slightly longitudinally impressed in the middle, 

 clothed with long soft brownish hairs. 



Underneath with the sides of the sterna and abdominal 

 segments as well as the whole of the two ultimate seg- 

 ments finely strigosely punctured and clothed with a short 

 brownish pile ; the median portion of the breast with a 

 few small remote punctures and in the middle with a deeply 

 impressed strigiform pit which is prolonged forwards on the 

 mesosternal process in a fine line ; the mesosternal process 

 produced and obtusely pointed. Legs deeply punctured , 

 the outerside of the intermediate and hinder tibiae finely 

 rugose, with a small tooth about the middle , the innerside 

 of the same provided with a long and dense fringe of 

 blackish hairs, the front tibiae with two large and acute 

 lateral spines before the equally strongly and sharply pro- 

 duced terminal edge. 



As for the velvety vesture of its elytra this beautiful 

 species is allied to G. Fornasinius Bert., however its colour 

 and markings as well as the structure of head and thorax 

 are very different, the outline of both the latter being 

 much more in accordance with those of G. Higginsi Westw. 



In the Bulletin entomologique of the Soc. Ent. de 

 France, Seance du 10 aout 1887, p. cxxxv, mention is 

 made of a Q specimen of a new Goliathid from the San- 

 Benito, which Mr. Künckel d'Herculais intended to de- 



JJotes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. Jfll. 



