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having a black spot near their centre shaped like a kidney-bean, with a small round one at a little 

 distance nearer the body. Posterior having likewise a small black spot about half an inch from the 

 base. Margins of the wings rather deeply scolloped. 



GOLIATHUS DRURII. 



Plate XL. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Lamellicornes. Family: Cetoniida'. 



Genus. Goliathus, Be Lamarck. Cetonia, Fabr. Scarabaius, Lim). Drury, Sj-c. 



GoLiATHUs Drurii. Albidus, thorace lineh sex et disco elytrorum irregulariter nigris, pedibus aeneis, capite 



porrecto bifido. (Long. Corp. 4 unc.) 

 Syn. Goliatlms jMuxiimis var. Drury, App. vol. 3. Fair. Syst. Eletdh.i.Vi'j. 



Cetonia Goliata, Oliv. Ent. l.Q.p.Tl.t. 9./. 33. c. 

 Habitat : Sierra Leone, Africa (Drury). 



Head cream-coloured at top, and black underneath, being full three-fourths of an inch in length, 

 from the neck to the extremity of the two horns which issue from the fore part of it, the sides of which 

 are furnished with two other thick homs which are shorter than the former. Eyes black, and situated 

 so as to discern above and beneath. Antennae black. Thorax an inch and a half long, cream-coloured, 

 having a thin, sharp, black edge all round ; on the top are six longitudinal black streaks differently 

 shaped, separated by cream-coloured lines, the middle ones being narrowest, on each side of which near 

 the lateral edge is a small single black spot ; the under part of the thorax is cream-coloured. Scutellum 

 of a longish triangular shape, and cream-coloured. Elytra cream-coloured, with a broad black streak 

 like velvet, about a third of their breadth, ruiming near the latei;al edges from the shoulders to the tips. 

 On each side the scutellum is a small black oblong spot, at about one-third of an inch from it. Legs 

 dark green, finely polished. The hairs on the middle and hind thighs and tibiae dark orange. Abdomen 

 dark green. Abdominal scales [posterior coxae] the same ; on which, close to the joints of the hinder 

 thighs, are two small cream-coloured spots. Sternum long, and of a dark gi-een colour. 



I have ventured, on the authority of several distmguished entomologists, to give this 

 insect as a species distinct from Goliathus maximus, figured in the first volume of these 

 Illustrations, PI. 31. It is true, indeed, that both are from the tropical districts of the 

 western coast of Africa, and that both exhibit the same general structure and form of the 

 horns, (the variations of which constitute the chief specific dififerences in these cornuted 

 species). Drury evidently at first regarded it as specifically distinct, for he says, in 

 his observation upon it, " This insect is of the same genus with that described in Vol. I. 

 PI. XXXI., but I judge it to be a difierent species," although in the synoptical appendix 

 to the volume he calls it " a variety of Goliathus," the markings are very diflferent, as may 

 be seen by comparing the two figures ; but it might be considered that the specimen 

 represented in the first volume was a rubbed individual of that here figured ; this, however, 

 is evidently not the case, because in both descriptions Drury expressly describes the dark 

 part of the elytra as resembling velvet, which could not be the case if the specimen was 



