ON THE CETONIIDJE OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
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64. Of the second sub-section of Schuppettice, Dr. Smith has also brought home one 
species, which M. Gory confounded with the Cetonia Tania of Palisot de Beauvois. I 
happen to possess both species, and find them to be quite distinct. In the true Coryphe Tania 
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-ameous. 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. 
Sr. 18. Cetoninus) Coryphe Hersclielii, n. s. 
Descb. Coryphe olivaceo-senea nitida, corpore subtus thoracisque margine rufescontibus, elytris 
fascia emarginata Hava notatis, tibiis tarsisque nigris. 
Gnathocera tamia , G. P. p. 138. tab. 21 . fig. 4. 
Long. 11 lines. 
65. Of the third sub-section of Schuppettice, Dr. Smith has collected the type. 
Sp. 19. (Cetoninus) Coryphe umbonata, King. 
$ Gnathocera umbonata , G. P. p. 141. tab. 21. fig. 4. 
5 Cetonia propinqua, G. F. 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 clypcus, and the anterior tibise 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. Yerreaux 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 
Chj.ohocalyE, has not yet been particularly noticed. The Coryphe Africana, Fab., is a very 
good type of this groupe, which is entirely African and intratropical. It comes very near to 
the Asiatic section “ Naricicc ,” and like it, is remarkable for its brilliant green colouring, only 
here this colouring is pure and without spots. But we must now return to the aberrant section 
“ Rhomborhina,” 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 Pliilis- 
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. Gory and 
Percheron Goliathus lieros, 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 regius, but this is probably a mistake. 
