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PLATE XXXII. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME SPECIES OF CETONIIDA FROM MADAGASCAR. 
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Tue insects of Madagascar, from the little hitherto known of 
them, appear to be almost as remarkable as those of New Holland. 
The beautiful Carabideous Euryderze, Cicindelideous Psilocere, 
Buprestideous Polybothrides, the Lamellicorn Kpilissi, and especi- 
ally the Cetoniidz, may be cited as instances of anomalous forma- 
tion. These are Coleopterous examples, but of the other orders of 
insects, (except Lepidoptera,) from Madagascar we are almost 
totally ignorant. 
Of the four Cetoniidz figured in the opposite plate, two (fig. 1 
and 4,) have been for some years past partially known by the insuffi- 
cient descriptions of Messrs. Gory and Perchéron, published in 
Silbermann’s Revue Entomologique (No. 15, 1835). No figures 
of them have however yet appeared. The other two species 
(fig. 2 and 3,) are new, having been but very recently received in 
Paris from Madagascar. They are both of considerable interest, 
especially figure 3, which is, in several respects, one of the most 
singular species of the family. 
The insect represented in figure 1 was referred by Messrs. Gory 
and Perchéron to the genus Goliath ; a second species, G. ochreata, 
was also described by them, which agrees with this in structural 
characters. Dr. Burmeister in his manuscripts, (of which he 
has kindly allowed me to ayail myself,) has considered these two 
insects as forming a separate genus intermediate between those 
groups of Goliathideous Cetoniidze which have the head of the males 
strongly cornuted, and those in which the head is simple in both 
sexes. I have much pleasure in retaining his name, and illustrating 
it with details taken from the unique male of the species figured, 
contained in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes. The details 
of the female are taken from a specimen in the collection of 
A. Melly, Esq. In respect to the flattened horn at the hind part 
of the head, the group is analogous to the Trigonophori of India 
