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GOLIATHIDEOUS CETONIID^E 
Section 3. —CHEIROLASIA. Westwood. 
This section is distinguished by the anterior tibise of the males 
being destitute of the serrations which so singularly arm those of 
the preceding sections. The apex of the anterior femora, and the 
base of the tibise are, however, clothed with a thick coat of fulvous 
hairs, of which also a broad brush ornaments the apical joint of 
the fore tarsi. The head of the males is armed on each side, in 
front of the eyes, with a porrected horn; and the middle of the 
clypeus is produced into a thick horn, dilated and very slightly 
bifid at the tip. The sides of the front of the clypeus are also 
pointed. The body is comparatively short and broad, destitute of 
metallic colours, but marked with pale pubescent patches. The 
mandibles have the blade slender and rather acute (PL 45, fig. 1 Z>). 
The maxillse have the basal lobe produced into an acute spine; and 
the apical lobe is also very acute (fig. 1 c, both maxillse being alike). 
The mentum has the fore margin deeply cleft (fig. 1 cl). The 
sternal process is broad, obtuse, and but slightly porrected (fig. 1 e 
and 1 f). 
Specifs I. (XI.)— Ceratorhina ( Cheirolasia) Burkei . Melly’s MS. (Plate 45, fig. 1). 
Nigra nitida, capite, prothoracis lateribus maculis elytrorum, corporeque subtus albida 
pubescentia obsitis, tibiis posticis tarsisque omnibus fulvis <J. Long. corp. lin. 12—14 
(cornu capitis incluso). 
Habitat in Africa australiori. D. Burton. 
This is one of the fine new species collected by Mr. Burton in Southern Africa (see p. 174), 
for a knowledge of which I am indebted to A. Melly, Esq. The head is fulvo-castaneous, 
the edges of the large frontai horn and the tips of the two short ones at the fore angle of the 
clypeus black, the hind part of the head black, with two large triangular patches of pale 
pubescence, of which there is also a large one on each side of the carina, running to the middle 
of the frontal horn, where it forks, and extends to the tip of each branch ; the horns in front 
of the eyes are fulvo-castaneous, the antennae fulvous, the underside of the head and trophi fulvo- 
castaneous. The prothorax has its upper surface marked on each side with a broad baud of 
pale pubescence, in which is a small dark dot ; this pubescence extends narrowly along the 
fore margin of the prothorax, from the middle of which it is extended backwards in a narrow 
line to the middle of the disk. Within eacli pale band is a sooty-black opaque one, the space 
enclosed within which and the hind margin is very bright, with a few very minute punctures. 
The elytra are black and shining, with a slight pitchy tinge, the base and extreme apex being 
bright castaueous; they are marked with a variable number of impressed patches of pale 
pubescence, which become more or less confluent in different individuals. The disc is slightly 
and very minutely punctured. The podex is castaneous, with a large white spot on each side. 
The fore legs are elongated; the femora castaneo-fulvous, with the tips black ; the anterior 
ones thickly clothed within with fulvous hairs; the fore tibise black, with the tips fulvous, 
which is also the colour of the dense patch of hairs within, at the base; tbe outer margin 
presents the slightest possible indications of an approach to the common tridentate structure, iu 
the existence of two slight sinuations; the tarsi are long, with the joints produced acutely at 
the tips within, the terminal joint rather broad and thickly clothed with fulvous hairs; the 
four posterior tibise are fulvous, with the base beneath black; the tarsi are also fulvous ; they 
are slightly serrated along the outer margin; each of the four posterior tibiae is furnished with 
two rather short spurs; and there is a very minute bisetose appendage between the ungues of 
each foot. The metasternum is black, with the sides covered with pale pubescence, as are 
also the posterior coxa?; the abdomen black, with two rows of large pale patches down the 
middle, and several smaller spots on each side. It is very slightly channelled down the three 
