ON THE CETONIID^ OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



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Sp. 20. (Cetoninus) Goliatlius torquatus, Drury. 



Desce. Goliatlius velutino-viridis ; vertice, thoracis margine antico, vittis duabus triangularibus 

 anticis abbreviatis, elytrorum lineis duabus marginalibus interruptis maculisque octo sutura- 

 libus albescentibus, pygidio viridi maculis duabus albis, corpore infra viridicupreo, tarsis nigris. 

 $ Capite albo, clypei cornu simplice porrecto subrecurvo apice acuto. 

 $ Clypeo quadrato simplice. 



Scarahceus torquatus^ Drury, III. p. 60. tab. 44. fig. 1. 

 Cetonia coUaris, Schonnherr, Syn. Ins. 1.3. p. 127. 36. 



Long. 32. lines. 



Note. The original specimen was a female badly described and figured by Drury. It is now in my 

 cabinet. Drury says that it was received from Sierra Leone. Within these few days Mr. Strachan has 

 brought the male from that colony. It differs from all the other known males of Goliathus in not having 

 the horn of the clypeus bifid. I am ignorant of the grounds upon which Schonnherr assumed the right to 

 change Drury's unobjectionable specific name. 



Sp. (Cetoninus) Goliathus Polyphemus, Fah. 



Descr. Goliathus. velutino-viridis, thorace quinque-lineato linea media abbreviata, elytris maculis 

 albis seriatim dispositis. 

 $ Capite tricorni cornu medio porrecto apice bifido 

 $ Incognita. 



Cetonia Polyphemus^ Oliv. Ins. tab. 8. fig. 61. 



Long. 30 lines. 



Note. An unique specimen of this rare and valuable insect was for many years the chief ornament of 

 the Entomological Cabinet bequeathed by the late Sir Joseph Banks to the Linnean Society. It was the 

 male described by Fabricius and figured by Olivier. This specimen however appears to have been stdlen 

 since the insects of the Banksian Cabinet were arranged in 1826 by the late Messrs. Bennett and 

 Haworth. MM. Gory and Percheron state that their figure of the male is from a specimen in their pos- 

 session. The above description of the species is compiled from the works of Fabricius, Olivier, and Gory. 

 There appears however to be more than one specimen known, for Mr. Melly of Liverpool assures me that 

 an insect of this species was lately exhibited for sale at Glasgow, and purchased by Sir William Hooker 

 the Professor of Botany. Mr. Hope, however, is of opinion that Sir W. Hooker's species is different. 

 Perhaps it is the male of G. torquatus. The above two normal sub-sections dififer from the following- 

 aberrant sub-sections in not having the vitreous lustre of these last, but on the contrary, having a 

 velvetty aspect. 



Sp. (Cetoninus) Goliathus micans, Drury. 



Descr. Goliathus viridi-nitens, antennis palpis tarsisque nigris. 



^ Clypeo lateribus unispinosis, cornu medio porrecto recurve apice bifido. 

 9 Clypeo simplice quadrato. 



Scarahceus micans, Drury, II. p. 59. tab. 32. fig. 3. 



Long. 25 lines. 



Note. Both male and female are in my cabinet. I may here observe that the species is truly African, 

 and that in Mr. Kirby's Introduction to Entomology, 2d edit. vol. iv. p. 506, G. micans is erroneously 

 mentioned in place of G. Inca. — I have lately seen another species of the same sub-section larger than 

 this, in the possession of Mr. Strachan who brought it from Sierra Leone. It is quite new, and difiijrs 

 from Goliathus micans in a broader form and in the clypeus being entirely black. The horn of the male is 

 also quite different, approaching more closely to that of a Coryphe. I believe that gentleman intends to 

 describe it. 



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