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PLATE XCVI. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF TWO SPECIES OP GOLIATH BEETLES FROM AFRICA 
GOLIATHUS GIGANTEUS.* 
(Plate 95, fig. 1.) 
The extreme rarity of this insect induces me to refiguro it from 
a fine specimen recently obtained by J. A. Turner, Esq., of 
Manchester, from the river Gaboon, the locality of the specimen 
figured by Drury. The specimen now represented differs from 
Drury’s figure in having the two lateral black marks on each side 
of the protliorax united together. The specific character given in 
my edition of Drury’s Illustrations, vol. i. p. 61, requires amending 
thus:— 
“ Corpore supra velutino prothorace nigro, lineis 7 holosericeo-albis, elytris obscure ferrugioeis 
basi extiemo albo, scutello albo lineis duabus lateralibus nigris.” 
GOLIATHUS (COMPSOCEPHALUS) HORSFIELDIANUS. 
(AVhite in Ann. of Nat. Hist,, Jan. 1845.) 
(Plate 95, fig. 2 ^ ;3 $.). 
Char. Subg. Corpus supra scrieeum baud nitiduna. Caput marls anlico cornubus duobus elevato- 
porrectis, apicc sub-bifidis, amiatum ; feminco subquadmtuui inerme. Maxilloa utriusque 
sexus lobobasali comuto; apicalt in mare inermi, in femina in cornu subacutuni producto. 
Prothorax inansvalde convexus antice in lobum rotundum productus latcribus fere rectis, 
femiDSB magis depressus et minus quadratus. Pedes maris robusti tibiis anticis utrinque 
deatatis; femiii® extus tridentatis ; tibiis 4 posticis in utroque sexu spinis duabus ante 
medium niarginis exterui armatis. Processus mesostemi panun productus apice obtusus. 
(Fig 2 a, head of male seen sideways; 2 5, maxilla of male; 2 c and 2 (/, sternal process; 
3 a, maxilla of female.) 
This new subgenus is most closely allied to Mecynorhina, but 
differs from it and all the othex' Old World Goliath beetles, in 
possessing two spines in the middle of each of the four posterior 
tibiae, in which respect it approaches the New AVorld Yncie. With 
the exception of the bifid front of the head, the present subgenus 
has no relation to Narycius and Dicronocephalus. 
Species Unica. Goliathus (Compsockphalxjs) Horsfieldianus, 
Cupreo-viridis prothorace scutelloque castaneo-nigris, prothomce tenuc viridi marginato, elytris 
flavescenti-viridibus corpore subtus pedibusque viridi rubro ct cupreo-tiuctis. Long, corp, 
lin.l6 ^,15 
Habitat in Abyssinia,!). Roth. In Mus. “East Ind. Comp.”—Mus. Brit, et Seckenberg, 
Frankfort (D. Ruppell, test, D, Melly, and A, White), 
■* The synonyms of this species will be found in vol. i. p. 165, 
