32 INSECTA. 
and fellow traveller of the late Delalande, and who has returned to 
the Cape of Good Hope, has lately sent us a species which is not 
larger than the C. gagates, which it also Pecermples in its colours, 
and which presents all the characters of a Goliath. The C. geotru- 
pina of M. Scheenherr is perhaps also congeneric. The thorax in 
Goliath is less round and pointed than in Inca. The anterior thighs 
are not dentated, and there is no emargination in the inner Hee of 
their tibice *. 
In the third division of the Melitophilii, a section corresponding 
to the family of the Celoniide, Mac Leay, the sternum is prolonged 
more or less into an obtuse point between the second pair of legs ; 
the epimera or axillary piece is always apparent above, and occupies 
all the space that separates the posterior angles of the thorax from 
the base of the elytra; the thorax usually becomes widened poste- 
riorly, and has the form of a triangle truncated anteriorly or at the 
pointt. The mentum is never transversal, and its superior edge 
is more or less emarginated in the middle. ‘The terminal lobe of 
the maxille is silky or penicilliform. The body is almost ovoid, and . 
depressed. 
This division comprises the genus 
Certonia, Fab., 
With the exception of the species that belong to the preceding 
subgenus and to Rutelat. 
In some, the thorax is prolenged posteriorly in the form of an an- 
gle, so that the scutellum totally disappears. They form the genus 
Gymmnetis, Mac Leay, Hor. Entom., I, p. 152. Several are found in 
America. Some inhabit Java, and the eastern parts of Asia, in 
which the thorax is similarly prolonged, but where the scutellum, 
although very small, is still visible§; the mentum is also more deeply 
and angularly emarginated, and the last joint of the labial palpi is 
proportionably longer. The epistoma is more or less bifid. There 
are others in New Holland and the East Indies in which the epistoma 
is still bifid or armed with two horns in the males, but the body is 
proportionally narrower and more elongated, the abdomen consider- 
ably narrowed posteriorly, even almost triangular, and the antennal 
club considerably elongated—they compose the genus Macronota of 
* See Encyc. Méthod., art. Scarabéides ; the Hist. des Anim. sans verteb., Lam.; 
the Observ. Entom., Weber, and Lin. Trans., XII, p. 407, where M. Kirby describes 
two species. There is an Insect in Java, that at a first glance appears to be a Go- 
liath, and which Messrs. Lepeletier and Serville have considered as such; but it has 
all the essential characters of a Cetonia; the thorax is merely rounded and narrowed 
postericrly. The male has a bifurcated horn on the head. 
+ Almost orbicular in some, as in the C. cruenta, Fab.; C. ventricosa, Schan- 
herr, &c. 
M. Chevrolat, possessor of a splendid collection of Coleoptera, among which are 
several from that of Olivier, has shown me a species found in Cuba by M. Poe which 
has the air of a Trichius, but the axillary pieces and sternal prolongation of the 
Cetonie. Certain species of this last genus— C. cornuta, Fab.—have the thorax fur- 
nished with a small horn, and at the first glance resemble Scarabei. 
+ Lat. Gener. Crust. et Insect. 
§ C. chinensis, Fab. :—C, regia, Fab. ; C. palma, and imperialis, Scheenherr, 
