102 Harris's re.nwks upon Scarabceus golialus, fyc. 



new edition of Drury's work,* informs us that this specimen of 

 the Goliatus came into the possession of Dr. William Hunter, 

 who subsequently bequeathed it, with his own collection, to the 

 University of Glasgow, where it is still preserved, and forms 

 one of the most interesting objects of the Hunterian museum. 

 This beetle remained, for a long time, unique in Europe ; but 

 there is now another one, resembling it in color, but of inferior 

 size, and with the horns on the head not so much developed, in 

 the magnificent collection of W. S. Macleay, Esq., of London. 

 While the Goliatus was in the possession of Dr. Hunter, it was 

 seen both by Fabricius and Olivier, and the latter took a drawing 

 of it for his {{ Entomologie," where"]" it is referred to the genus 

 CETONIA. More recently it has been a third time figured in Mr. 

 Duncan's volume on beetles, pi. 16, belonging to Jardine's 

 " Naturalist's Library." Although it has been repeatedly rede- 

 scribed and refigured, I believe that these are the only original 

 figures, and that all the others are mere copies from them. 



The Chevalier De Lamarck, having found it expedient to 

 propose a new genus for the reception of the Scarabceus (or 

 Cetonia) Goliatus and some other allied insects, regardless, as 

 he always was, of the rights of his predecessors, converted the 

 Linntcau specific name for the insect in question to the generi- 

 cal name of Goliath, and substituted that of Jlfricanus for the 

 species. The characters of this new genus were published, in 

 1801, in the Systeme des Animaux sans Vertebres," and the 

 general name was retained by Latreille in the first volume of his 

 " Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum," which appeared in the 

 course of the same year. Now, however, this name is usually 

 written Goliathus ; and to the species, instead of Jffricdnus, 

 that of giganteus, proposed by Mr. Kirby,J is applied, in the new 

 edition of De Lamarck's "Histoire Naturelle des Animaux 

 sans Vertebres," and in Westwood's edition of Drury's work. 

 Mr. Duncan calls this same species Goliathus magnus. 



* Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, &c, by DruDrury; a new edition, with additional 

 matter by J. O. Westwood. 3 vols, quarto, London, 1837. 



f Entomologie, Vol. I, No. 6, page 7, pi. 9, fig. 33. 



J Kirby and Spence. Introduction to Entomology, Vol. Ill, p. 33. 



$ Alluding to this species, in the third volume of Drury'a work, pp. 54 and 55, Mr. 

 Westwood, apparently through inadvertence, calls it Goliath, maxtmus. 



