494 CLASS INSECTA. 



Goliath, Lam., Kirb. Ceionia, Fab., Oliv. 



A sub-genus which is composed, according to M, de La- 

 marck, of large and handsome species, some from Africa and 

 the East Indies, others from equatorial America. MM. Le- 

 peletier and de Serville (Encyc. Method., Article Scaraheides) 

 have separated these last under the generic name of Inca. 

 The axillary piece is not prominent. The two anterior feet 

 have the thighs furnished with a tooth, and an emargination 

 at their external base. The upper edge of the mentum is 

 strongly emarginated in its middle ; this piece in Goliath, 

 properly so called^ presents four lobes or teeth, two upper, 

 and two others lateral. The labial palpi are inserted on its 

 edges, in the emarginations of these last lobes. All the species 

 with which we were acquainted were of large size. But M. 

 Verreux, jun., nephew and fellow traveller of the late Dela- 

 lande, and who has returned to the Cape of Good Hope, has 

 just sent over a species which is not larger than C. gagates, 

 which it otherwise resembles in its colours, and presents all 

 the characters of Goliath. The C. geotrupinus of M. 

 Schoenherr is perhaps also congenerous. The corslet of Go- 

 liath is less round and more narrow in front than that of 

 Inca, and the legs have no emargination at the internal side.* 



In the third division of the melitophili, a division corres- 

 ponding to the family of cetonidse of Mr. W. Macleay, the 

 sternum is prolonged more or less into an obtuse point, be- 



• See Encyc. Method., Article Scaraheides ; Hist. Nat. des Animaux sans 

 Vertebres, of M. de Lamarck ; Observ. Entom., of M. Weber, and the 

 twelfth volume of the Linnasan Trans., p. 407, in which Mr. Kirby 

 describes two species. There is found in the Island of Java, an insect, 

 which might be taken, at the first glance, for a Goliath, and which MM. 

 Lepeletier and Serville have considered as such, but it has all the essential 

 characters of cetonia ; only the corslet is more rounded, and narrowed 

 posteriorly. The male has a forked horn upon the head. 



