THE 
CACIQUE BEETLE. 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae or horns clavated, with a fissile tip. 
hegs generally toothed. 
Body thick and compaft. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
BEETLE with forked head ; the thorax yel¬ 
low, streaked with black ; the wing-shells 
silvery, with black edges, 
Cetoine Cacique. 
Oliv. Coleopt, 
This remarkable Beetle has sometimes been regarded 
as a variety of the Scarabteus Goliathus. Mons. Oli¬ 
vier however, in his excellent entomological work, is 
inclined to consider it as a perfedlly distindl species. 
It is a native of South-America, and is represented in 
its natural size. 
