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64. Of the second sub-section of Schuppellia, Dr. Smith has also brought home one 

 species, which M. Gory confounded with the Cetonia Tcenia of PaHsot de Beauvois. I 

 happen to possess both species, and find them to be quite distinct. In the true Coryphe Tmnia 

 the margin of the thorax is not yellow, while the body is wider than that of the new Cape 

 species, and the colour more viridi-seneous. I shall honour my new species with the name of 

 the distinguished philosopher to whom Dr. Smith's expedition was so much indebted. It will 

 also commemorate his uncle, who was a meritorious entomologist, particularly attached to the 

 study of Coleoptera. I may here observe, that M. Gory has only described the male. 



Sp. 18. Cetonimis) Coryphe Herschelii, s. 



Descb. Coryplie olivaceo-senea nitida, corpore subtiis thoracisque niargine rufescentibiis, elytris 

 fascia emarginata flava notatis, tibiis tarsisque nigris. 

 GnatJiocera twnia, G. P. p. 138. tab. 21. fig. 4. 



Long. 11 lines. 



65. Of the third sub-section of ScJiuppellia, Dr. Smith has collected the type. 

 Sp. 19. (Cetoninus) Coiyplie umbonata, Klug. 



^ Gnathocera umbonata, G. P. p. 141. tab. 21. fig. 4. 



$ Cetonia jyropinqua, G. P. p. 265. tab. 51. fig. 3. 

 Note. Here MM. Gory and Percheron appear to have described the male and female as different 

 genera. The female has a simple quadrate clypens, and the anterior tibiae tridentate. According to 

 M. Gory, she comes from Mexico. However this may be, Dr. Smith has brought her also from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, from whence M. Verreaux has also brought me the male. 



66. The fourth sub-section, as yet, has only been found in intratropical Africa. Its type is 

 Coryphe suturalis, Fab., which resembles C. umbonata exceedingly in colour and markings ; 

 but the body is narrower, and this insect leads us to the Coryphe bimacula, Wiedem., by the 

 affinity of transultation. 



67. I now proceed with the sections of Coryphe, as the fifth, which Mr. Kirby has called 

 Chlorocal^, has not yet been particularly noticed. The Coryphe Africana,V?ih., is a very 

 good type of this groupe, which is entirely African and intratropical. It comes very near to 

 the Asiatic section " Naricice" and like it, is remarkable for its brilhant green colouring, only 

 here this colouring is pure and without spots. But we must now return to the aberrant section 

 " Rhomb or hincd,^^ as it leads us to what may be deemed the principes Coleopterorum. 



Sub-genus 3. Goliathus, Lamarck. 

 As this is perhaps the most beautiful groupe of Coleoptera known, and as one of the sections 

 consists of the largest as well as rarest insects that can grace our cabinets, I shall give a brief 

 view of all the species of the sub-genus which are known to me. The males have the clypeus 

 always horned, but the thorax never ; which, by the way, will distinguish Goliathus from Philis- 

 tina. The maxilla has rarely any corneous teeth, and its terminal lobe, crowned with a pencil 

 of hair, is always bent inwards at right angles to its back. The corneous lobe of the mandible 

 is very short, and rarely longer than the square membranaceous part. The mentum is deeply 

 emarginate or bilobed.* The males have the anterior feet elongated, while the females have 

 the anterior tibise always externally tridentate. The three species called by MM. Goiy and 

 Percheron Goliathus heros, Goliathus Melly, and Goliathus opalinus, appear all to belong to 

 the last sub-genus Coryphe, although they undoubtedly approach very closely to that section 



* Professor Klug describes it as trilobed in the female of his Goliathus regitis, but this is probably a mistake. 



