[22] From the peculiar power of contraction and elongation possessed by these segments, and which is found in the caterpillars of other species of Deilephila, these insects have obtained the name of Elephant-hawk Moths. [23] Since this was written, I have been favoured by Mr. MacLeay with an inspection of his magnificent collection, which possesses a Goliathus, nearly resembling the insect here figured, and which that gentleman considers as a variety of this. It is, however, considerably smaller, and the horns of the head are not so much developed. [24] Goliath. micans is an inhabitant of Africa, and not of South America, it is figured in the 2nd vol. of these Illustrations, pl. 32. [25] The female of this insect and two other new species of Goliathus, are described by M. L. Buquet, in the Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, for 1835 and 1836. [26] Hence I have not adopted De Lamarck's specific name Africanus, which is of course applicable to all the species. [27] These scales, which Drury in his description called "the abdominal scales," are the dilated trochanters of the posterior pair of legs. [28] If this had really been the case, the Fabrician name ought surely to have yielded to that of Linnæus. [29] "Let no one that is unacquainted with this study, suppose that there is any exaggeration in this account; or that what I have related, is done with a view to catch the opinion of the public. Far from it. Every adept knows it, and to every adept I would appeal. "I have counted above three hundred eggs, contained in the bag of a spider; and I have observed more than that number laid by a water insect (Phryganea) on a blade of grass, by a river side. The moth, common in our gardens, named the _Great Tiger_ (or Caja of Linnæus), lays above six hundred eggs; and almost double that number I have known discharged by a _Long Legs_, as it is called, or Tipula of Linnæus. Goedartius mentions two thousand worms that he plainly counted, springing from their parent insect, and imagines there were three thousand bred from the same animal. [30] From our information respecting the habits of the indigenous and European species of Fossorial Hymenopterous insects, including the Pelopæus spirifex, it is evident that the male takes no share in the labour of constructing the nest. See my memoirs upon this subject in the "Annales de la Société Entomologique de France," for 1836, and the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol. i. for the same year, and the Memoirs of Saint Fargeau and Shuckard therein referred to. [31] The presence of the dorsal wing cases indicates the arrival of the insect at the pupa state.