Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
_Upper Side._ Antennæ setaceous and dark brown. Head the same. Thorax and
abdomen grey: having a tuft of black hairs standing between them. General
colour grey, faintly tinged with red. Anterior wings with a remarkable
irregular black bar running from the tips to the shoulders, crossing the
thorax horizontally, and parallel with the anterior edges; on the middle
of this edge is a triangular dark brown spot edged with black, and nearer
the body is a smaller one of the same shape and colour: a second narrower
black line is situate about half an inch below, and parallel with the
first, rising on the posterior edges, and extending across the wings
almost to the external ones. Posterior wings with a black irregular bar
arising near the external corners, and crossing them in a straight
direction, meeting at the extremity of the abdomen; just above this, and
almost close to it, is a very small and narrow waved black line running
parallel with it, but towards the end suddenly turns off, and reaches the
anterior edges. Besides the above markings there are a number of lighter
and darker shades interspersed on the different parts of the wings.
_Under Side._ Palpi reddish, the extremities brown. Tongue spiral. Legs
dark brown, mottled with red. Breast, abdomen, and sides red. Wings
greyish red, with black indented lines and bars running parallel with the
edges of the wings, and regularly placed one above another. Anterior
wings {54}having a black spot near their centre shaped like a
kidney-bean, with a small round one at a little distance nearer the body.
Posterior having likewise a small black spot about half an inch from the
base. Margins of the wings rather deeply scolloped.
PLATE XL.
[Illustration]
GOLIATHUS DRURII.
Plate XL.
ORDER: Coleoptera. SECTION: Lamellicornes. FAMILY: Cetoniidæ.
GENUS. GOLIATHUS, _De Lamarck_. Cetonia, _Fabr._ Scarabæus, _Linn. Drury,
&c._
GOLIATHUS DRURII. Albidus, thorace lineis sex et disco elytrorum
irregulariter nigris, pedibus æneis, capite porrecto bifido. (Long. Corp.
4 unc.)
SYN. Goliathus Maximus var. _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Fabr. Syst. Eleuth._
2. 135.
Cetonia Goliata, _Oliv. Ent._ 1. 6. _p._ 71. _t._ 9. _f._ 33. c.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone, Africa (_Drury_).
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