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ON THE CETONIIDiE OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
terminal lobe of the maxilla armed on the inside at the middle with a corneous tooth. We 
thus have a character which clearly proves that these gigantic insects are aberrant, and that 
they pass off by the affinity of transultation to the genus Macrominus , of which the maxilla, 
internally toothed, is an essential character. The gigantic Goliathi are, at first sight, easily 
distinguished from the Hupfnerii by their back being convex, and they are known from that 
other section of the sub-genus which MM. Lepelletier and Serville have called Inca by the 
large and conspicuous axillary pieces or epimera of the mesothorax, (See Zool. Journal, vol. v. 
p. 165 .) which intervene between, what is, to speak accurately, the protliorax and the 
shoulders of the elytra. The Goliathi Gigantei have a strong plantula* between the ungues 
of the anterior feet, and probably it exists in all the feet. Unfortunately, my specimens, 
although good, are not in this respect thoroughly uninjured, and thus I am also ignorant 
whether the plantulee be attended or not with pseudonychia. The feet are all black, but the 
four posterior tibi® are along the inside fringed with a close fulvous down, while the males 
have the anterior tibiae thus lined only half way. The abdomen beneath is more or less 
covered with the same close down. The mesosternum is advanced, broad and pointed, some- 
thing like a gothic arch. It is difficult to imagine how insects so large and weighty, can 
possibly live on flowers ; at least the corolla, which would receive in its bosom any species of 
this section, must necessarily approach in size to that of the Rafflesia. I hese gigantic Goliathi 
may possibly live therefore on the juices that exude from the wounds of trees. One thing is 
sure, namely, that the penicilliform structure of the back of the terminal process of their 
maxilla; proves that they do live on juices of some kind. This section is confined to intra- 
tropical Africa, and, as far as I am aware, only two females of it have ever as yet been brought 
to Europe. There are, indeed, only five species of the section, with certainty known ; and of 
all these five, I believe specimens may be seen in Great Britain. I shall now take the oppor- 
tunity of distinguishing them, since some peculiar circumstances attending this magnificent 
groupe, give me the means of communicating information that certainly no other person 
possesses ; and because I have now before me the very specimens described by Drury and 
Linnseus, and upon which specimens the genus Goliathus of Lamarck was originally 
founded. 
Sp. (Cetoninus) Goliathus Drurii, West- 
Descr. Goliathus niger, capite tlioracisque vittis quinque elytrorum ferrugineorum basi scutcllo- 
que medio albis, vittseque thoracic® marginalis macula nigra. 
$ Clypeo albo, lateribus unidcntatis : dente laffi emarginato, cornu medio porrecto bifido : ramis 
nigris divergentibus arcuatis apice dilatatis oblique truncatis. 
$ Incognita. 
ScarahcBus Goliathus, Drury, vol. i. tab. 31. 
, Linn. Syst. Nat. Mant. p. 530. 
Cetonia Goliathus, Oliv. tab. 1. fig. 33. 
Long. 3 inches 6 lines. 
Note. The above synonyms of the male are, I believe, the only original ones founded on actual inspection 
of the insect. The other writers who have touched on the subject, and they are not a few, have merely 
known the species from the above figures. Now the original specimen, from which all the above notices 
were taken, existed unique in Drury’s collection, and was the first species of the Gigantic section ever 
published. I therefore consider it as the type. The specimen was found dead, and floating down the river 
* Professor Klug and Mr. Hope, who have given us figures and descriptions of the only two females of the section 
hitherto known, make not the slightest allusion to the existence of plantulee. 
