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ous. The anterior extremity of the epistoma, in the males, is 

 divided into two lobes, in the form of truncated or obtuse horns. 

 The thorax is nearly orbicular. 



Goliath, Lam. Kirb. — Cetonia, Fab. Oliv. 



A subgenus which, according to M. de Lamarck, is composed of 

 large and beautiful species, some of which inhabit Africa and the 

 East Indies, and the others, tropical America. Messrs Lepeletier 

 and Serville — Encyc. Me'thod., article Scarabeides — have separated 

 the latter from it under the generic appellation of Inca. The epi- 

 mera is not prominent. The inner sides of the thighs of the two 

 anterior legs are furnished at base with a tooth and an emargination. 

 The middle of the superior margin of the mentum is strongly emar- 

 ginated; this part in the true Goliaths presents four lobes or teeth, 

 two superior and the two others lateral. The labial palpi are in- 

 serted on its edges in the emarginations of these latter lobes. All 

 the known species are large; but M. Verreaux, Jun., the nephew 

 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 resembles in its colours, 

 and which presents all the characters of a Goliath. The C. geotru- 

 pina of M. Schoenherr 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 side of 

 their tibi3e(l). 



In the third division of the Melitophili, a section corresponding 

 to the family of the Cetoniid^, 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 occu- 

 pies all the space that separates the posterior angles of the thorax 

 from the base of the elytra; the thorax usually becomes widened 

 posteriorly, and has the form of a triangle truncated anteriorly or 

 at the point(2). The mentum is never transversal, and its superior 



(1) See Encyc. Method., art. Scarabeides,- the Hist, des Anim. sans verteb., 

 I,am. ; 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 Goliath, and which Messrs Lepeletier and Serville have considered as such; 

 but it has all tlie essential characters of a Cetonia; the thorax is merely rounded 

 and narrowed posteriorly. The male has a bifurcated horn on the head. 



(2) Almost orbicular in some, as in the C. cruenta, Fab ; C- ventricosa, Schoen- 

 herr, &c. 



M. Chevrolat, possessor of a splendid collection of Coleoptera, among which are 

 several from th.at of Olivier, has shown me a species found in Cuba by M. Poe 



