132 DESCRIPTION OF TWO SPECIES OF 
is pointed at the extremity of the suture, being most conspicuous 
in the female. The podex is black, with two conspicuous square 
whitish spots. The fore legs are robust, the femora green, varied 
beneath with pale whitish plush; the tibie black, with three 
unequal sized strong teeth on each side, exclusive of the apical 
spur, those on the outer edge being abruptly bent downwards ; the 
tarsi of the four fore-feet black, middle tibize with the outer edge 
entire, the apical spur bent, hind tibize simple on the outer edge, 
and with a thick coating of golden brown hairs along the inner 
margin; posterior tibie pale fulvous, with the tips of the joints and 
claws black. The under side of the prothorax is thickly coated 
with whitish plush, as are also the sides of the meso- and meta- 
thorax ; the middle of the mesosternum and thighs are dark opaline 
green, highly polished. 
The mesosternal process is broad, porrected and rounded in 
front, with a thick coating of fulvous pile on its upper side; the 
abdomen is dark chesnut, with the centre much depressed, and the 
podex is fringed with fulvous hairs. 
The female agrees with the male in general characters, but has 
the head entire and unarmed, the clypeus broad, square, and 
entire, with the front margin reflexed; the dise of the head is 
marked with two oblong whitish patches of plush. The anterior 
tibie are entire along the inner margin, but armed with three ex- 
tremely acute teeth on the outside; the middle tibie are armed 
with two teeth on the outside, near the middle, and the posterior 
ones with a single tooth in the middle ; the underside of the abdo- 
men is convex and green, and the sides of the breast are covered 
with a yellowish gray plush, intermixed with coarse hairs. 
Dr. Savage informed Dr. Harris that this species and M. Poly- 
phemus feed upon a vine that climbs upon very lofty trees, and that 
they wound the bark of the vine and extract the juice, the vine 
being full of a fluid as tasteless and limpid as water; and the 
natives when travelling in the wood, cut it off and drink the juices 
when no water can be easily obtained. 
The males of these as well as of the other gigantic Goliath beetles 
are found by Dr. Savage to be much more numerous than the 
females. Every practical collector knows that this is the case with 
the common Melolonthe and other species, which, like the Goliath 
beetles, are chiefly taken on the wing. With respect to the geo- 
graphical distribution of these fine insects, Dr. Savage observed 
