Harris's remarks upon Scarabwus goliatus, fyc. 103 



The second species, and in point of time the second described 

 individual of this genus, was also contained in Drury's collec- 

 tion, and was first described and figured in 1782, in the third 

 volume of this author's Illustrations, page 55, and plate 40. It 

 was procured near Sierra Leone in Africa. Drury says of it, 

 that " this ^insect is of the same genus with that described in 

 Vol. I., plate 31 ; but I judge it to be a different species ; " 

 and "it is an undoubted nondescript." Subsequently, however, 

 Drury inserted this species in the index to his work as a variety 

 of Scarabaius Goliatus. Mr. Westwood considers it to be a 

 distinct species, and, in his edition of the Illustrations, names it 

 Goliathus Drurii, in honor of its first describer. At the sale of 

 Drury's insects it was purchased by Mr. Macleay, senior, for 

 the sum of 12. 1. 6. sterling, and still remains in his collec- 

 tion. Mr. Westwood says that "a very fine and recent speci- 

 men has lately been received by Mr. Havill, of Oxford street, 

 (London), printseller and naturalist, who has demanded the sum 

 of fifty pounds for it ; " and I am informed that he has actually 

 been offered and has refused forty pounds for the specimen. 



The insect in the Cabinet of the Society is the third known 

 specimen of Goliathus Drurii. It agrees with Drury's figure in 

 all essential characters, and, to the best of my recollection, dif- 

 fers from it only in having- a few white dots on each side of the 

 great white patch on the elytra, not symmetrically arranged, but 

 placed irregularly near the margin of the patch. It was pre- 

 sented to the Society in November, 1837, by Dr. Joseph Far- 

 num, of Salem, and was brought to this place from Africa by a 

 seaman, whose account of it is substantially the following. 

 About two years ago he was on board of a Salem trading vessel, 

 which put into a small port on the western coast of Africa, be- 

 tween Sierra Leone and Cape Palmas. Whilst there the vessel 

 was visited by the natives for the purpose of trade, and one of 

 them brought this beetle dead, and in the state in which it now 

 remains. The natives, furthermore, said that these insects fly 

 about in the woods during the night. 



In 1785, Voet* figured and described another species of this 

 genus under the name of Cacicus ingens. It is smaller than the 



* Besclireibungen und Abbildungen hartschaaligtcr Insecten ; Coleoptera, Linn. Vol. I., 

 p. 101. pi. 22, fig. 151. Quarto, Erlangen, 1785, &c. 



