OF AFRICA. 
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Cetonia nitidula, Fabr., Ent. Syst. 1, 2, 146, is another 
African species which cannot be determined from the concise 
description of Fabricius. The emarginate clypeus, however, and 
the elytra acuminated at the apex, &c. seem to refer it to the 
genus Dymusia. It was described from the collection of Mr. Lee. 
Mr. Hope (Col. Man. 1, 38) refers it to the genus Cetonia without 
any expression of doubt. 
INCA LINEOLA, Westwood. (Pate 46, fig. 6.) 
Although the genus Inca has, as it appears to me, been satisfacto¬ 
rily proved to belong to the Trichiideous and not to the Goliathideous 
Cetoniidse, I cannot resist the opportunity of figuring a species 
recently received by the British Museum from Sierra Leone, wdiere 
it was collected by the Rev. D. Morgan ; all the other known 
species of the genus being natives of South America. Various 
instances have been recorded of equally strong peculiarities, in the 
Entomo-geographical distribution of the species of different groups ; 
as, for example, in a species of Cerapterus, brought from Brazil by 
Mr. Miers ; all the other Paussidse being natives of the old wnrld. 
/.nigra, capite et pronoto fulvo, varioloso, hoc tuberculis nigris, elytris albido griseonigroque 
variis, alboque guttatis, singulo ultra medium et versus suturam lineola nigra ornato. 
Long. eorp. lin. 10. Habitat Sierram Leonam, Rev. D. Morgan. In Mus. Britan. 
The head and pronotum are black, the latter especially, covered with large fulvous punc¬ 
tures, except in various parts which form small, round, and oblique black, raised, shining 
tubercles. The head is unarmed and simple (fig. 6 a), the front margin of the clypeus 
being alone very slightly angulatcd in the middle. The maxillae (fig. 6 b) are terminated by 
a triangular densely hairy lobe. The mentum is deeply emarginate in front, and narrowed at 
the base (fig. 6 c). The sides of the prothorax are slightly serrated. The elytra are not 
sinuated at the humeral angles, nor are the epimera visible ; the former are punctured, varied 
with pale gray, whitish, and black colours, each with four small white round spots, one near 
the suture in the middle, the other three towards the outer and apical margin. There is also 
a small black stripe running from the middle white spot parallel with the suture. The legs 
are black and punctured. The anterior femora have a very slight sinuation near the tip 
within. The tibiae are straight and destitute of a spine on the inside, hut 3-dentato on the 
outside. The four posterior tibiae have a slight indication of a spine beyond the middle. 
The sternal process is simple. The body beneath is covered with pale fulvous pile, except 
in the middle of the metasternum. The abdomen, except at the sides, is also luteous. I 
presume from the straight middle tibiae, and the rather broad fore ones, that the unique speci¬ 
men is a female. 
I have now brought my revision of the whole of the Goliath¬ 
ideous Cetoniidse to a close. My object in illustrating this tribe of 
insects lias been twofold; first, to present a series of figures of the 
many new r and rare species of these insects, which, both from their 
singular forms and beautiful colours, are pre-eminently favourites 
