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Gaboon, which is nearly on the equator, in front of the Ida cle Principe. It passed by the public sale of 
Drury’s Cabinet finally into that of my father, so that I am now in possession of the original specimen of 
this, as well as of the still more magnificent species Goliathus giganteus, with which it has iii general 
been confounded. It has long been labelled in my cabinet as Goliathus typus ; but I understand that in 
a new edition of Drury, lately published, Mr. Westwood has called it G. Drurii. I need scarcely say 
that MM. Gory and Percheron are mistaken when they assert that “ Lcs types originaux du genre 
Goliath ne se trouvent dans aucune collection.” Drury’s figure of G. Drurii is good, except that it is 
coloured much too highly. 
Sp. (Cetouinus) Goliathus regius, King. 
Descr. Goliathus subtus nigro-olivaceus, supra nigro-piceus, elytris ad suturam late, margine, 
scutello utrinque, thoracisquo vittis quinque albis, barum media discali brevi tenui fusiformi, 
reliquis marginem thoracis posticum attingentibus, vittis marginalibus macula nigra. 
$ Ineditus. 
5 Capite nigro simplice subquadrato, angulis anticis rotundatis lunulisque ad basin duabus albis. 
Goliathus regius, Klug. Catalogue of Animals and Plants collected by A. Erman in 
his Voyage Round the World, p. 30. n. 87. tab. 15. fig. 7. 
Long. corp. 3 inches 0 lines. 
Note. Professor Ki ng of Berlin has given us, in a work published in 1835, an excellent figure and 
elaborate description of the female of this now species, which was brought by Erman from the Isla de 
Principe in the Bight of Benin, and is now deposited in the Royal Museum of Berlin. As far as my recol- 
lection will now serve me, I believe it was a specimen of the male of this species which last year, under 
the name of “ Goliathus magnus," was exhibited to a meeting of the British Association by Mr. Frederic 
Taylor of Liverpool. Goliathus regius comes exceedingly close to the next species Goliathus giganteus, 
and indeed principally differs from it in being of less size, and in the markings of the thorax, which are 
very distinct. The elytra aro wonderfully alike in both, but the pure white scutellum of G. giganteus , 
and its white thorax, with six more or less abbreviated black longitudinal bands, may at once separate it 
from the present species G. regius, where the scutellum is black, having only a white mark on each side, 
and where the black thorax has five white longitudinal bands, of which the fusiform middle one neither 
reaches to the neck on one side, nor to the scutellum on the other, but is placed exactly in the middle. 
G. regius is at once to be known from G. Drurii , by the colour of the elytra. It is singular that Klug 
should have accurately separated this species from Drury’s figure (vol. 3. tab. 40.) of G. giganteus, and 
yet have erroneously confounded G. Drurii with G. giganteus, although these are far more distinct. We 
may thus see, however, the advantage of the inspection of specimens over that of figures. 
Sp. (Cetoninus) Goliathus giganteus, Lain. 
Descr. Goliathus subtus nigro-olivaceus, supra rosaceo-albus, thoracis vittis sex, exterioribus bre- 
vioribus, elytrorum vitta discali lata fovcolaque minuta versus suturam mediam irregulari 
nigris. 
$ Clypeo albo lateribus unidentatis ; dente laterali lato truncato, cornu medio porrecto bifido 
ramis nigris divergentibus apice dilatatis postice acuminatis. 
$ Incognita. 
Scarabmis Goliathus, var. ? Drury, vol. iii. tab. 40. 
Cetonia Goliathus, var. /3. Oliv. tab. 9, fig. 33. 
Long corp. 31 inches. 
Note. According to Drury, the specimen now before me came from Sierra Leone. I have seen another 
specimen of the male from that colony, of which a most wretched figure has been lately published in 
London, under the title of “ Getmia Golianthus.” Drury's figure, on the other hand, is excellent in every 
respect. This entomologist suspected it to be a different species from that now called G. Drurii, by 
