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PEATE XCVv I 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF TWO SPECIES OF GOLIATH BEETLES FROM AFRICA, 
enact 
GOLIATHUS GIGANTEUS.* 
(Plate 95, fig. 1.) 
Tue extreme rarity of this insect induces me to refigure it from 
a fine specimen recently obtained by J. A. Turner, Esq., of 
Manchester, from the river Gaboon, the locality of the specimen 
figured by Drury. The specimen now represented differs from 
Drury’s figure in having the two lateral black marks on each side 
of the prothorax united together. The specific character given in 
my edition of Drury’s Illustrations, vol. i. p. 61, requires amending 
thus :— 
“Corpore supra velutino prothorace nigro, lineis 7 holosericeo-albis, elytris obscure ferrugineis 
basi extremo albo, scutello albo lineis duabus lateralibus nigris.” 
GOLIATHUS (COMPSOCEPHALUS) HORSFIELDIANUS. 
(White in Ann. of Nat. Hist., Jan. 1845.) 
(Plate 95) fic. 2453 9.). 
Char, Subg. Corpus supra sericeum haud nitidum. Caput maris antice cornubus duobus elevato- 
porrectis, apice sub-bifidis, armatum ; femine subquadratum inerme. Maxille utriusque 
sexus lobo basali cornuto; apicali in mare inermi, in femina in cornu subacutum producto. 
Prothorax maris valde convexus antice in lobum rotundum productus lateribus fere rectis, 
feming magis depressus et minus quadratus. Pedes maris robusti tibiis anticis utrinque 
dentatis ; feminz extus tridentatis ; tibiis 4 posticis in utroque sexu spinis duabus ante 
medium marginis externi armatis. Processus mesosterni parum productus apice obtusus. 
(Fig 2 a, head of male seen sideways ; 2 6, maxilla of male ; 2 c and 2 d, sternal process ; 
3 a, maxilla of female.) 
This new subgenus is most closely allied to Mecynorhina, but 
differs from it and all the other Old World Goliath beetles, in 
possessing two spines in the middle of each of the four posterior 
tibize, in which respect it approaches the New World Ynez. With 
the exception of the bifid front of the head, the present subgenus 
has no relation to Narycius and Dicronocephalus. 
Species Unica. Goriatnus (Compsocrpuatus) Horsrie.pranvs. 
Cupreo-viridis prothorace scutelloque castaneo-nigris, prothorace tenue viridi marginato, elytris 
flavescenti-viridibus corpore subtus pedibusque viridi rubro et cupreo-tinctis. Long. corp. 
Hie GN gu lo, Oi. 
Habitat in Abyssinia, D, Roth. In Mus. “ East Ind. Comp.”—Mus, Brit. et Seckenberg, 
Frankfort (D. Ruppell, test. D. Melly, and A. White). 
* The synonyms of this species will be found in vol. i. p. 165. 
