136 Mr. G. J. An-ow on LamelUcorn Beetles 



Mr. Hirase informs ine that the specimen which he sent 

 me came from Yanohe, in the province of Mutsu. This forms 

 the northern etid of Hondo, the main ishmd of Japan, and is 

 not far from Hakodate, which is a port near the southern end 

 of the North Isluiid (Hokkaido). The localitj is therefore 

 near that given by Gouh!. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. 



Temis sfimpsoni, nat. size. 



XV. — Azotes on the LameUiconi Beetles of the Genus Golofa^ 

 with Descriptions of Three new Species. By Gilbert J. 

 Arrow. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Amongst the most remarkable and fantastic of all the 

 Dynastinse, if not of all insects, are tlie larg;e species of the 

 genus Golofa. The number of species of this genus is now 

 fairly considerable, but they are extremely close and difficult 

 to discriminate, especially when not at their maximum 

 development. Their nomenclature is also in the greatest 

 confusion, the figures and descriptions of the ancient authors 

 being invariaMy insufiicient for exact determination. Most 

 of the originals of these have vanished, but I have carefully 

 examined sucb types as are available in the endeavour to 

 settle the synonymy so far as possible. 



The first-described species, Golofa claviger, Linn., was 

 based upon Martinet's figure in the very rare ' Planches 

 Euluminees ' of D'Aubentou, and anotlier in Voet's * Cata- 

 logus Systematicus Coleopterornm/ both of which were 

 quite inaccurately cited by Linnseus, whose own copies of 

 these works (the first a portion only with a titlepage supplied 

 by himself) I have examined in the Linnean Society's 

 Library. These figui'es seem to represent the Mexican 

 G. 'pizarro of Hope or the closely similar S. American 

 form, while a specimen in the Linnean Collection belongs 

 to the West Indian (St. Vincent) species G guildinii, Hope. 

 The elytra of this specimen are black instead of red, as 

 described by Linnaeus, but as it bears no label at all there is 

 no proof that it has not been added to the collection in later 

 years, like so many others there. As the authors of the two 

 figures mentioned, as well as Linnseus himself, were ignorant 

 of the habitat, it seems impossible to fix the species except 



