104 Harris's remarks upon Scarabceus goliatus, $c. 



two preceeding species, and the elytra are entirely of a pearl- 

 white color. The specimen was stated by Voet to be a native 

 of America, and to belong to Renger's rich cabinet. Olivier 

 and Fabricius call this species Cetonia Cacicus, and repeat 

 Voet's statement, that it is a native of America. Mr. Hope, in 

 his little work, entitled " the Coleopterist's Manual," puts down 

 the Cacicus as a native of Guinea, from which place he says 

 that he has received a specimen. In the Cabinet of the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History of Paris is another specimen, which, 

 though it resembles Voet's figure of the Cacicus in most re- 

 spects, differs from it in having a triangular black spot on each 

 elytron, near the humeral angle. Messrs. Gory and Percheron 

 have described and figured it in their " Monographic des Ce- 

 toines," p. 150, pi. 24, fig. 2., and give, as its native country, 

 South America, but state that this locality is not indeed certain. 



Dr. Klug is said to have described a female of some species 

 of this genus in Erman's "Reise," under the name of Goli- 

 athus regius. The description I have not yet met with ; but 

 Mr. Westwood, who saw the insect in the Royal Museum at 

 Berlin, says that it has the head unarmed, and that it agrees in 

 color and markings with the G. Drurii. 



One more insect belonging to this genus, as restricted by Mr. 

 Hope, remains to be noticed. It is in the cabinet of Mr. Hope, 

 who received it from Guinea, and ascertained it to be a female 

 by dissection, and, on the fifty ninth page of his " Manual," 

 states that he thinks probably it is the female of Goliathus 

 giganteus. While the Manual was passing through the press, 

 Mr, Hope added some interesting observations on the Gol- 

 iathidae, together with a full description of the foregoing female, 

 under the provisional name of G. princeps, with the following 

 remarks. " In the present state of our knowledge it is difficult 

 to decide with certainty whether this insect be the female of any 

 of the already described, or of a still unknown, species. It is 

 better therefore to give it a provisional name, although the insect 

 is evidently a female, than let it remain undescribed. At a fu- 

 ture time it can be changed when more accurate information is 

 obtained." A beautiful figure of this insect, from the accurate 

 pencil of Mr. Westwood, is prefixed to the Manual, from which, 

 and from the description, it appears that the edge of the clypeus 

 is rounded and unarmed, like that of the regius. 



