ON THE CETONIIDjE OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
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^ Clypeo antice concavo, cornu medio brevi recurvo apice dilatato triangulum obversum 
simulante. 
? Clypeo quadrato antice subsinuato. 
Cetonia quadrimaculata, Oliv. tab. 8. fig. 73. 
Gnathoocra 4>-maculata, G. P. p. 131. tab. 19. fig. 4. 
Long. corp. 12 lines. 
Note. Messrs. Gory and Percberon have figured the female from Mr. Hope’s collection, taking it for a 
Coryphe (or as they erroneously call it, Gnathocera ) to which sub-genus all the females of the Smithian 
section of Goliathi , so nearly approach. Olivier, Fabricius, and Schonulierr, seem also to have known 
only the female. On the other hand I possess only the male, and as my specimen has lost the last joint 
of all its tarsi, I cannot say whether the last joint of the anterior tarsus has a brush on the inside above 
the ungues or not. The species comes close on the confines of the following sub-section, as may be seen 
by the structure of the anterior tibite of the male, which are not multidentate on the inside, according to 
the rule of the Goliathi Smithii in general. My friend Mr. Hope says that this species is identical with 
the Goliathus Daphnis of M. Buquet ; but the last named entomologist is nevertheless right in consider- 
ino' the two to be distinct species, since the horns of the clypcus of the males are different as well as their 
anterior tibia;. Goliathus Daphnis in fact belongs to the same section as G. Smithii, and beautifully 
connects that species with the Goliathus i-maculalus. So true it is, that while analysis is necessary for 
correct synthesis, sometimes also synthesis conducts us to correct analysis. 
Section 2. Hopfnerii. 
69. This section I only know by M. Gory’s description and figure of an insect from Mexico, 
in the collection of the Count Dejean, and called by him Goliathus H'opfneri. It seems to 
me to belong truly to the sub-genus Goliathus, differing from the section of Smithii, in the 
form of its head, and from the Gigantei in the form of its thorax, which is neither convex nor 
lobated behind in the middle. 
Sp. (Cctuninus) Goliathus Iidpfueri, Dej. 
Desck. Goliathus clypeo nigro, corpora subtus thoraceque obscuris villo flavescente obtectis, elytris 
rnfo-brunneis nigro- carinatis, femoribus subtus fulvis. 
$ Clypeo porrecto dilatato bifido, vertice transverso elevato, ramisque divergentibus. 
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Goliathus H'opfneri, Dej. Cat. Ed. 3. p. 188. 
Goliathus Hopfner, G. P. p. 154. tab. 26. fig. 2. 
Note. An unique specimen of the male is said to be in the collection of M. Dejean, and from Gory’s 
description of it I have ventured to compile the preceding character. Little value however ought to be 
assigned to compilations of this kind, or indeed to any description which is not founded on actual inspec- 
tion. I hope, therefore, that Comte Dejean will favour us soon with a detailed description and accurate 
figure. 
Section 3. Gigantei. 
70. These of all insects are the most esteemed by collectors, because they are exceedingly 
rare and at the same time most conspicuous for their size and beauty. Even the rich 
collection of M. Dejean contains no specimen according to the last edition of his catalogue. 
I have known fifty guineas asked for Goliathus giganteus, and a specimen now in my col- 
lection is known formerly to have cost 29/. This section of the sub-genus is distinct from all 
the others and indeed, from all the other sections of the genus Cetoninus , in having the 
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