Plate XXXII. fig. 3.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Cetoniidæ.
GENUS. GOLIATHUS, _de Lamarck_. Cetonia P. _Fabr._ Scarabæus P. _Drury_.
GOLIATHUS MICANS. Viridis nitens, clypeo porrecto recurvo bifido, tibiis
anticis internè serratis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Scarabæus Micans, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Syst. Ent. p._ 42.
_No._ 1. (Cetonia m.) _Syst. El._ II. _p._ 136. 6. _Oliv. Ent._ 1. 6.
_t._ 1. _f._ 2. _a. b. Herbst. Col._ III. _p._ 201. 3. _t._ 28. _f._ 3.
_Guérin. Icon. R. An. Ins._ _pl._ 26. _f._ 5. _Gory & Percheron Mon.
Ceton. pl._ 25. _f._ 1.
HABITAT: Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa, about 5 or 6° North Lat.
(_Drury_). Senegal (_Gory_).
Head green and nearly square; the surface irregular and uneven. The
corners are pointed, forming two black obtuse angles. From the front of
the head issues a small black and thick protuberance, like a horn, that
divides into two branches, each of which terminates in a sharp point. All
the remaining parts, except the tarsi, are of a fine lively green,
differing in shades according to the manner in which it is held to the
light; and appearing to be so highly polished, that the colour seems
reflected from a part beneath the surface. Scutellum large and
triangular. Sternum small. Abdominal scales small and close. The fore
legs are very long and slender, the tibiæ being dentated. Elytra having
two small swellings near their extremities, and furnished at the suture
with two short thick spines; the anus extending beyond them. Anterior
tarsi having a small tuft of brown hair placed on the last joints, next
the ungues.
{63}HOPLIA COERULEA.
Plate XXXII. fig. 4.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Melolonthidæ,
_MacLeay_.
GENUS. HOPLIA, _Illiger_. Melolontha p. _Fabricius_. Scarabæus p.
_Drury_.
HOPLIA COERULIA. Supra coeruleo, subtus argenteo-squamosa nitens, clypeo
integro. (Long. Corp. circ. 5 lin.)
SYN. Scarabæus coeruleus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Herbst. Col._ III.
_p._ 121. 73.
Scarabæus farinosus, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 1. 2. 555.
Melolontha farinosa, _Fabr. Ent. Syst. p._ 38. 31. _Syst. Eleuth._ II.
177. 29. _Panzer Faun. Ins. Germ._ 28. 16. _Guérin Icon. R. An. Ins. t._
25. (Hoplia far.)
Melolontha squamosa, _Olivier Ent._ 1. 5. _p._ 66. 90. _t._ 2. _f._ 14.
a. c. (nec. _Fabr._)
Hoplia formosa, _Latr. Gen. Cr. & Ins._ 2. _p._ 116. 2. _Schon. Syn.
Ins._ 3. 158. (errore typic. pro farinosa.)
HABITAT: South of Europe, France (_Drury_).
All the upper parts of this insect are of a beautiful brilliant sky blue.
The under parts are of a silvery pale green. Head somewhat quadrangular,
and margined. Thorax and upper parts covered with a short fine down or
hair. Scutellum triangular. Elytra margined, and at their extremities
having two tubercles, the anus extending beyond them. All the under parts
are covered with short hair, like down, of a silvery green colour.
Abdominal scales large and distinct. Sternum not produced. Tarsi red
brown, the posterior having only a single unguis.
Taken in the greatest profusion near Sevres by M. A. Gory.