Harris's remarks upon Scarabceus goliatus, fyc. 107 



whose collection it is preserved. The type of this genus is the 

 Celonia Polyphemus of Fabricius. The following remarks, 

 made under this species by Mr. Hope, may serve as a caution 

 to those persons who possess rare and valuable insects, and will 

 show to this Society the necessity of immediately providing for 

 the safe keeping of their specimen of Hegemon Drurii. " This 

 insect (Mecynorhina Polyphemus), for many years, was consid- 

 ered unique, and was the chief ornament of the Banksian cab- 

 inet : it has been stolen from thence by some individual un- 

 worthy of the name of naturalist. I regret to state also that a 

 box, containing some rare and singular insects, from Sierra 

 Leone and New Holland, has disappeared from my own collec- 

 tion." The Polyphemus, however, is not lost to science ; for it 

 seems that there is a specimen in the cabinet of Messrs. Gory 

 and Percheron, who have described and figured it in their 

 Monographic. 



