BUPRESTIS (CHALCOPHORA) VIRGINIENSIS. 



Plate XXX. fig. 3. 



Order : Coleoptera. Section : Serricomes. Family : Buprestidse. 

 Genus. Buprestis, Zitm. Subgenus. Chalcophora, Solier. 



BuPRESTis (Chalcophora) Virginiensis. Tlioraee lato fusco, punctis cupreis; elj tris serratis atris, maculis 

 cupreis, saturaque metallica. (Long. Corp. 1 uiic. 1| lin.) 



Syn. Buprestis Virginiensis, -DrMrj/, v4;;/). ro?. 2. Herbst. Co/, ix./). 114. 63. <■ 148./. 1. 



Buprestis Virginica, Linn. (Gmel.) I. iv. p. 1940. No. 110. Rossi (Hellw.) Fit. Etr. 1. p. -211. not. 



Habitat; Virginia. 



Head small and broad. Antennae about the length of the thorax, and small. Thorax broad and 

 rugged, having the elevated parts of a dark coppery colour; but the depressed ones lighter, covered 

 with very small punctures, and joining close to the wing-cases. Scutellum very small and triangular. 

 Elytra of the same colour with the thorax ; the dark parts in the figure being those that lie highest. 

 They are margined on the sides and suture, extending even with the anus ; which near their edges are 

 slightly serrated. Under side shining and coppery, but on the sides with a tincture of flesh colour. 

 Legs the same ; with two tibial spurs. 



GOLIATHUS GIGANTEUS. 



Plate XXXI. fig. 1. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Laraellicornes. Family: Cetoniida;. 



Genus. Goliathus, I)e Lamarck. Cetonia, Oliv. Searabseus, Linn, ifc. 



Goliathus Giganteus. Thorace piceo, nutlo, Iiolosericeo-albo lineato ; elytris glaucis, clypco porrecto bifido. 



(Long. Corp. 4 unc. 3 lin.) 

 Syn. Goliathus Giganteus, Kirbi/ in Introd. to Ent. vol. 3. p. 33. v. 4. p. 493. 



Scarabisus Goliatbiis, Linn. Mant. '>.30. 



Cetonia Goliata, Fabr. Ent.Syst. 1. 2. p. 124. 1. 



Cetonia Goliathus, Olivier, I. No. 6. pi. o.f. 33. 



Goliathus Magnus, Naturalist's Librari/, Beetles, pi. 16. 



Goliathus Afi'icanns, De Lamarck Anim. sans Vert. 



Habitat : Western Africa, near the Er|uinoctial line. 



Head, above, flesh-coloured ; beneath, black ; about three-fourths of an inch in length, terminating 

 in two blunt, obtuse, and irregular horns. Two other thick and jagged horns also arise from its sides, 

 much siiorter than the former. Its breadth at the base is half an inch ; having a small projecting ridge 

 running along the middle, from thence to the extremity, at the base of the horns. Thorax an inch and 

 a half long, being principally black; but along the sides is flesh-coloured. It has also five narrow and 

 irregular waved lines of a flesh colour running from the anterior to the posterior edges ; one ot which, 

 being in the middle of the thorax, is narrower than the rest ; the two next this terminate at the posterior 

 edges in a fine rose colour; these next the lateral edges are broadest, having likewise a patch of 

 rose colour next the wing-cases. About the middle of the thorax, these external lines separate and 

 divide, continuing so almost to the anterior edges, where they again unite. The under part ol the 

 thorax is flesh colour ; but in the middle of a yellowish brown. The scutellum is triangular and black ; 

 with a clear white central oblong mark truncated in front. Elytra beautiful chocolate-coloured, and 



