134 GOLIATHINUS AUREO-SPARSUS. 



scribe and figure iu the »AnnaIes" under the name of 

 Goliathinus Guirali. As the San-Benito River is close to 

 the locality where my new species was taken, it is not 

 impossible that Mr. Küuckel's species will prove to be 

 identicial with my aureo-sparsus , but I have been unable 

 to detect any published description or diagnosis of his 

 G. Guirali. 



I have described this species under the generic title of 

 Goliathinus and not under that of Fornasinias used by 

 von Harold and Bates. Von Harold's views of the prio- 

 rity should be quite correct if Bertoloni only had propo- 

 sed a generic name without changing the specific name, 

 but to raise a specific name to the rank of a generic one with 

 addition of a new specific name, I consider inadmissible. Whilst 

 generic names are accepted or rejected according to the 

 personal views of different authors , the specific name is 

 the only stable base we have , therefore no such name 

 once published ought to be changed without the utmost 

 necessity. If the partisans of absolute priority should like 

 to retain in this case the generic name proposed by Ber- 

 toloni, they must retain also the original specific name 

 and call the insect Fornasinius Fornasinii Bert. 



A splendid series of cacographic and erroneous quotati- 

 ons concerning this subject, may be found in Berge's 

 Enumeration des Cétonides décrits depuis la publication 

 du Catalogue de MM. Gemminger & de Harold. 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseiiiii , "Vol. X!1I. 



