32 Mr. J. O. Westwood's Description, &;c. 



loose joints would have been useless, and the attempt to render 

 each individual joint rigid would have been fatiguing to the 

 muscles. 



I could detect no sexual distinctions in Paussus Parrianus in 

 external appendages. The specimens vary mucli in size, and one 

 variety has very little dark colour on the elytra. 



A letter from Dr. Bacon received to-day tells me that he has 

 taken two more new Paiissi ; one on the 17th April, in the 

 clutches of an ant, the other on the 13th May, flying. The fust, 

 he says, is certainly quite new ; the second, he says, comes 

 nearest to P. denticidatus. His collection of species, in all the 

 orders, amounts now to 3716, of which 2103 are Coleoptera. 



IX. Descriptions of some vew Species of Exotic Cetoniidas. 

 Bij the Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., &c. 



[Read 5th January, 1846.] 



Sp. 1. D/j)lognat/ia Hcrculcana, Hope. (PI. IV. fig. 1.) 



Affinis D. gctgali, Olivier, at multo major. Tota atra, nitida, 

 clypeo truncate, rcflexo ; thorace fere in medio binis punctis 

 elevatis notato ; elytra glaberrinia, absque striis punctisque 

 ullis. Sternum in mucronem obtusum productum. Pedes 

 nigri, pilis nigris tibiisque dentato-spinosis. 



Long. lin. 15, lat. lin. 8. 



Habitat circa Palmas, in Africa tropicali occidentali. 



In Muscco Dom. Hope. 



Received in the year 1815 from the Rev. T. Savage of Cape 

 Palmas. Mr. MacLeay has, I think, very properly considered 

 gagales, Fab., as typical of his subgroup GagcUesuv. (Vid. Illus- 

 trations of Annulosa of South Africa, iii. 22.) Dr. Burmeister 

 has united Celonia Ilebrcea, of Olivier, with the same genus; I 

 am inclined, however, to place Hchrcea with other species in a 

 subgenus, as they differ in form and colouring, and cannot pro- 

 perly be ranked under Gagatcs'ics. To the former group belong 

 SUicea of MacLeay, ^lec/ora/Ji of Bainbridge, and tlie typical 

 gagates. Camps'iura, with which Burmeister seems inclined to 

 place it, is quite another form. 

 Fig. lo, niandil)le ; l/>, maxilla ; \c, mentuni ; \d and \e, mesosternal process. 



