2 OrpER—COLEOPTERA. Section—PENTAMERA. 
Genus—GOLIATHUS. Lamarck. 
Sprecress 1—GOLIATHUS ALBOSIGNATUS. (Mas.) 
Prate I, Fic. 2. 
Castaneo-niger, velutinus; capite supra, pronoti lateribus lineisque quinque longitudinalibus, elytrorum 
lateribus striolisque numerosis transversis irregularibus, margaritaceo-albis; capite antice in mare 4-furcato, 
cornuque porrecto bifido, parum recurvo, apicibus cornu oblique truncatis ; corpore infra, pedibusque castaneo- 
nigris, nitidis, eneo parum tinctis; tibiis 4 posticis pallide rufo-setosis. 
Long. corp. (eum cornu capitis maris) une. 22. 
Habitat ; Africa, prope oppidum Tete collibus Kebrabassa dictis. In Mus. Britann., Turner, et Holmiz. 
Syn.: Goliathus albosignatus. Boheman, Insecta Caffrariz, pars 11. p. 10 (1857). 
Goliathus Kirkianus. G. R. Gray, Proceed. Zool. Soc. Lond. Jan. 26, 1864. 
From a sketch which I made of the type specimen of G. albosignatus of Boheman in the Stockholm 
Museum, I am able to state its identity with Dr. Kirk’s insect, the frontal horns in the former specimen 
having been broken off by a gun-shot, the specimen having been fired at whilst flying. I am indebted to 
Dr. Kirk for the following note on the locality of his specimen now in the British Museum. 
‘The Goliath was found under exceptional circumstances in an out of the way place not likely to be visited 
by white men for some time again. It was in exploring Kebrabassa, in which trip, except Dr. Livingstone and 
myself, every man on the expedition was done up and turned; and he says that this was the worst journey he 
ever had in his life. The season was November, just before the rains had set in, although the first showers had 
fallen. The beast was crawling on the rocky ground among the few inches of parched grass-stalks which 
remained. Thus I did not find it in its native habitat. I think it ought certainly to be found along the slopes 
near where the Mission was. There the climate is nearer to what it was where I got the insect than anywhere 
else: high hills of schist rock barely wooded, damp at one season and dry at another. The vegetation is nearly 
the same, but Kebrabassa has some features slightly distinct.’ 
The head of the male, seen laterally, is represented in fig. 2a, the maxilla of the same sex at fig. 24, 
shewing the unarmed mando and the obtusely bidentate galea, and the broad mentum, deeply notched in the 
porrected middle of the anterior margin, at fig. 2c. 
The specimen figured is contained in the Collection of the late J. Aspinal Turner, Esq., of Manchester. 
Srecrrs 2—GOLIATHUS HIGGINII. Westw. 
Prats JI, Fie. 7. 
Totus niger, capite et elytris subopacis, prothorace sub-heptagono, ante medium depresso, tuberculo parvo 
in medio marginis antici, disco glabro punctatissimo; elytris parum rugosis; scutello glabro basi punctato ; 
pedibus crassis, tibiis anticis extus 3-dentatis, 4 posticis prope medium extus spinula, basique serrulatis, intus 
nigro setosis; pygidio piceo setoso. (Hcm.) 
Long. corp. une. 14. 
Habitat ; Africa tropicalis. In Mus. D. Higgins. 
The male of this small but distinct Goliathus is still unknown. One of the maxille of the female is repre- 
sented in fig. 7, shewing the acute apical spine of the mando, and the two deflexed teeth of the galea; and 
the mentum in fig. 7a. The latter is contracted at the base, and has the fore margin slightly produced in 
the middle and not at all incised in the centre. This peculiarity may possibly indicate other peculiar character- 
isties in the male, which may render it necessary to separate it subgenerically from Goliathus proper, when it 
shall be discovered. 
GOLIATHUS (Suscenus GOLIATHINUS. Westw.). 
Mas. Caput latius, antice 4-dentatum, cornu frontali apice bifido armatum, maxille mandone in spinam 
acutam terminato; galea obtuse bidentata, Tibi antic dente infra apicem extus armate, margine interno 
inermi ; tibix 4 posteriores denticulo parvo mediano instruct basique externe subserrati, intus setosee. 
Femina. ‘Tibiz antice extus 3-dentate. 
