ORDER COLEOPTERA. 4<91 



The larvae live in rotten wood. The perfect insect is found 

 on flowers, and often on the trunks of trees, from which a 

 liquor distils which they suck. 



This section is susceptible of being divided into three 

 principal divisions, which correspond, the first, to the genus 

 trichius of Fabricius ; the second, to that of Goliath of M. 

 de Lamarck ; and the third, to that of cetonia of the first, 

 but reduced and simplified by the retrenchment of the second 

 genus, as well as that of rutela and other analogous groups. 



The melitophili of the first two divisions have no sternal 

 projection well marked. The lateral piece of the mesoster- 

 num, which we have designated by the epithet axillary (epe- 

 meros of Audouin), does not generally appear above, and 

 occupies only a portion of the space comprised between the 

 posterior angles of the corslet, and the exterior base of the 

 elytra. The corslet does not widen from front to rear, as in 

 the cetoniae. The external side of the elytra is not abruptly 

 narrowed a little below the humeral angles, as in these last 

 mentioned insects. But a character which appears to us 

 more rigorous, is that where the labial palpi are inserted in 

 lateral fossets of the anterior face of the mentum,so that they 

 are entirely discovered, and that the sides of this mentum 

 out-edge them even at their origin, and protect them behind. 

 In the first two divisions these palpi are inserted under the 

 lateral edges of tlie mentum, or in the edges themselves, so 

 that the first articulations do not appear, looking frontwards. 



Some (Trichidce) have the mentum either almost isometri- 

 cal, or longer than broad, and leaving the jaws discovered. 

 These are, 



Trichius of Fabricius. 



T. nobilis, Scarabceus nohilis, Lin. Oliv. Col. I. 6. iii. 10. 

 About half an inch in length, of a golden green above, cop- 



