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OX THE GOLIATHIDEOUS CETONIID^E 
and C. africana under a new genus Chlorocala, without any 
description. Messrs. Gory and Percheron, however, injudiciously 
adopting a principle far too general, and which has led to almost 
irremediable confusion in entomological nomenclature—(namely, 
that they were at liberty to select any given species as the one to 
which the old generic name might be attached when the genus 
became dismembered), retained the C. africana as the type of 
Gnatliocera, and gave the insects which are the true types of 
Gnathocera under a new generic name, Amphistoros. 
Mr. MacLeay, in the Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa, 
restored the name of Gnatliocera to the latter of these two groups, 
whilst for the former he took up the name Complies, originally 
proposed for it by Gory and Percheron, but which he has altered 
to Coryplie. Under this name it constitutes Mr. MacLeayJs second 
subgenus of Cetoninus, intervening between the two other sub¬ 
genera, Schizorhina and Goliathus. Of Schizorhina I have not 
hitherto treated, except by giving Mr. MacLeay’s divisions of it, 
and describing some new species (ante, p. 103), but his divisions 
of Goliathus will be found ante, p. 6. Mr. MacLeay observes 
upon Coryplie, that it is extremely close to Goliathus, from which 
it may be known “ by the maxillae having the terminal process 
shorter, and in a line with the base, and by the mentum being more 
truncated; but, above all, by the horny part of their mandibles being 
much longer than the square membranous part. The males scarcely 
ever have any teeth on the external side of the anterior tibiae, and 
when they possess such teeth, it is merely because they belong to 
aberrant species.”—Illustr. Cet. So. Afr. p. 29. 
The following are Mr. MacLeay^s Sections of Coryplie :— 
B. Mentum emar- 
ginate, $ with an¬ 
terior tibia) exter. 
nally bidentate, 
rarely tridentate. 
("Maxilla having the inner process unidentate. 
1. Xariciac (of McL. I Thorax not semicircular. $ Clypeus sometimes 
but not of Dupont). I horned or bifurcate. India. Type, Cetonia 
Mac Leaii s K. 
{ Maxilla having the inner process unidentate. 
Thorax semicircular. $ Clypeus bifurcate. 
Indian Islands. Type, C. bicornis, Latr. 
Asiatic Insects. 
v 
3. (Trigonophorus 
Hope, misnamed 
Rhouiborhina by 
Mac Lcay). 
Maxilla having no tooth on the inner process. 
Thorax not semicircular. $ with clypeus gene¬ 
rally horned. Asia. Type, C. Hardwickii. 
the jaw-like horns of the head ; and hence, in the “ Introduction to Entomology,” vol. iii. p. 
488, he observed, iC These horns have at first the aspect of a pair of open mandibles.” This is 
in no wise applicable to C. africana, &c. 
