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Gaboon, which is nearly on the equator, in front of the Isla de Principe. It passed by the public sale of 

 Drury's Cabinet finally into that of my father, so that I am now in possession of the original specimen of 

 this, as well as of the still more magnificent species GoliatJms giganteus, with which it has in general 

 been confounded. It has long been labelled in my cabinet as Goliathus typus ; but I understand that in 

 a new edition of Drury, lately published, Mr. Westwood has called it G. Drurii. I" need scarcely say 

 that MM. Gory and Percheron are mistaken when they assert that "Les types originaux du genre 

 Goliath ne se trouvent dans aucune collection." Drury's figure of G. Drurii is good, except that it is 

 coloured much too highly. 



Sp. (Cetoninus) Goliathus regius, Klug. 



Descb. Goliathus subtus nigro-olivaceus, supra nigro-piceus, elytris ad suturam late, margine, 

 scutello utrinque, thoracisque vittis quinque albis, harum medi£i discali brevi tenui fusiformi, 

 reliquis marginem thoracis posticum attingentibus, vittis marginalibus macula nigra. 

 ^ Ineditus. 



$ Capite nigro simplice subquadrato, angiilis anticis rotundatis lunulisque ad basin duabus albis. 

 Goliathus regius., Klug. Catalogue of Animals and Plants collected by A. Ennan in 

 his Voyage Round the World, p. 36. n. 87. tab. 15. fig. 7. 

 Long. corp. 3 inches 6 lines. 

 Note. Professor Klug of Berlin has given us, in a work published in 1835, an excellent figure and 

 elaborate description of the feimale of this new species, which was brought by Erman from the Isla de 

 Principe in the Bight of Benin, and is now deposited in the Royal Museum of Berlin. As far as my recol- 

 lection will now serve me, I believe it was a specimen of the male of this species which last year, under 

 the name of " Goliathus magnus" was exhibited to a meeting of the British Association by Mr. Frederic 

 Taylor of Liverpool. Goliathus regius comes exceedingly close to the next species Goliathus giganteus, 

 and indeed principally dijBfers from it in being of less size, and in the markings of the thorax, which are 

 very distinct. The elytra are wonderfully alike in both, but the pure white scutellum of G. gigantetts, 

 and its white thorax, with six more or less abbreviated black longitudinal bands, may at once separate it 

 from the present species G. regius, where the scutellum is black, having only a white mark on each side, 

 and where the black thorax has five white longitudinal bands, of which the fusiform middle one neither 

 reaches to the neck on one side, nor to the scutellum on the other, but is placed exactly in the middle. 

 G. regius is at once to be known from G. Drurii, by the colour of the elytra. It is singular that Klug 

 should have accurately separated this species from Drury's figure (vol. 3. tab. 40.) of G. giganteus, and 

 yet have erroneously confounded G. Drurii with G. giganteus, although these are far more distinct. We 

 may thus see, however, the advantage of the inspection of specimens over that of figures. 



Sp. (Cetoninus) Goliathus giganteus, Lam. 



Desce. Goliathus subtus nigro-olivaceus, supra rosaceo-albus, thoracis vittis sex, exterioribus bre- 

 vioribus, elytrorum vitta discali lata foveolaque minuta versus suturam mediam irregulari 

 nigris. 



$ Clypeo albo lateribus unidentatis ; dente laterali lato truncate, cornu medio porrecto bifido 



ramis nigris divergentibus apice dilatatis postice acuminatis. 

 $ Incognita. 



Scarahoeus Goliathus, var. ? Drury, vol. iii. tab. 40. 

 Cetonia Goliathus, var. /3. Oliv. tab. 9, fig. 33. 

 f.' Long corp. 3| inches. 



Note. According to Drury, the specimen now before me came from Sierra Leone. I have seen another 

 specimen of the male from that colony, of which a most wretched figure has been lately published in 

 London, under the title of " Cetonia Golianthus." Drury's figure, on the other hand, is excellent in every 

 respect. This entomologist suspected it to be a difi'erent species from that now called G. Drurii, by 



