510 CLASS VIII. 



A very natural, though numerous genus. The excision of the 

 shield-covers next the hind feet leaves generally a part of the 

 margin of the abdomen visible j the wings, since the insect flies 

 with closed elytra, pass through the excision. 



Sub-genera : Goliathus LAM. (in part), Gymnetis MAC L., Cetonia, 

 Cremastochilus KNOCK. (Add other sub-genera proposed by GORY 

 and PERCHERON, BURMEISTER and others.) 



Sp. Cetonia Cacicus FABB., Goliathus cacicus LAM., VOET Coleopt. i. Tab. 

 22, fig. 151, GORY et PERCH. Monogr. PL 24, Diet. univ. d'ffut. nat., 

 Atlas, Coleopt. PI. 6; West coast of Africa, Sierra Leone, &c., as also the 

 rare and large species Get. goliata, Scarabceus Goliathus DRURY, Exotic Ins. 

 Tom. in. PI. 40 (copied by OLIVIER Coleopt. i. No. 6, Tab. v. fig. 33, 

 Dutch edition of STURM, Tab. 70), Cuv. R. Ani. ed. ill., Ins. PL 45, fig. 4. 



(Gymnetis MAO L.) Sp. Cetonia kolosericea FABR., VOET Coleopt. i. 

 Tab. n. fig. 10, S. America, Surinam; Cetonia nitida, Scarab, nitidus L., 

 VOET i. Tab. 3, fig. 23, Cuv. . Ani. ed. ill., Ins. PL 45, fig. 5. 



Cetonia aurata FABR., Scarab, auratus L., BXESEL Ins. 11. Scarab, terr. 

 Cl. i. Tab. ii. figs. 15, fig. 9, PANZER D. Ins. Heft 41, Tab. 15; the 

 golden beetle, gold-green, elytra spotted white, 7'" to 9'" long; common in 

 gardens upon roses, elder, Thalictrum, &c. The larva is often found in 

 ants' nests. Ceton. cenea GYLLENB., Ceton. floricola HERBST &c. 



Trichius FABR. Elytra with external margin not excised; 

 epimera mostly not conspicuous in front of elytra. ( Thorax sub- 

 orbicular in most ; scutellum often small.) 



Compare LEPELETIER et SERVILLE Encycl. m6th., Ins. Tom. x. pp. 

 701704. 



Sp. Tricldus abdominalis DEJ., ERICHS. (and Trichius gallicus DEJ.), 

 Trichius fasciatus LATR., GORY et PERCHERON Monogr. PL 10, fig. i, 

 VOET Coleopt. i. Tab. v. fig. 43, HOUTTUYN Nat. Hist. i. ge Stuk, Tab. 72, 

 fig. 8, Cuv. J?. Ani. id. ill., Ins. PL 45, fig. i ; this species is different 

 from the true Trichius fasciatus L. (see GYLLENHAL in Append, to SCHOENH. 

 Syn. Tom. 3), which I have not observed here ; the Trichius fasciatus L. is 

 Trichius succinctus LATR. (not Scar, succinctus PALL.), GORY et PERCHER. 

 Monogr. PL 10, fig. 2 ; Trichius hemipterus FABR., Scarab, hemipterus L., 

 VOET Coleopt. i. Tab. x. figs. 8890. 



Add genus Inca LEPEL. et SERV. (species of Cetonia FABR.), and 

 some others of modern writers. Here also belongs, in BUEMEISTER'S 

 opinion, genus Euchirus K.IRBY. 



Sp. Euchirus longimanus, Scarab, longimanus VOET Coleopt. i. Tab. xi. fig. 

 97, HOUTTUYN Nat. Hist. i. ge Stuk, Tab. 72, fig. 3 ; habit, in East India 

 (Bengal). See other species figured in WESTWOOD Oriental Entomology, 

 Tab. i and 13. 



