. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. GOLIATHUS DEURYI. {Natural Sise.) the wing-covers not covering the apex of the Dser examination, by the upper lip being con- xndibles reduced to thin membranous blades, with a narrow outer margin alone horny. The typical or true C'etoniinse have a still more cons])icuous distinguishing character, in the side piece of the mesosternum (or middle breast) being elevated, and introduced be- tween the hind angles of the prothorax and the wing-cases. But this character fails in the group Trichiides, which forms the second diyision of the snb-fami
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. GOLIATHUS DEURYI. {Natural Sise.) the wing-covers not covering the apex of the Dser examination, by the upper lip being con- xndibles reduced to thin membranous blades, with a narrow outer margin alone horny. The typical or true C'etoniinse have a still more cons])icuous distinguishing character, in the side piece of the mesosternum (or middle breast) being elevated, and introduced be- tween the hind angles of the prothorax and the wing-cases. But this character fails in the group Trichiides, which forms the second diyision of the snb-family. The CHoniinm are the favourite group of Beetle collectors, a distinction they well merit for their unsvirpassed beauty of form and colour, the facility of their preserva- tion, and the great numbers and diversity of their species. To the classifier, however, they are less satisfactory, for all the struc- tural characters on which he depends for the definite arranging into genera and higher groups prove here to be extremely unstable. At most, a few groups can be indicated by the agreement of their general figure, or "; About 1,200 species have been described. These are moderately nimierous, and of little variety of form, in north temperate latitudes; in the corre- sponding zone of the soutii, as well as in oceanic islands generally (including New Zealand), they are entirely wanting. But each of the continents and large island groups within the tropical and warm tem- perate zones contains numerous peculiar genera, the richest being tropical Africa, Madagascar (which has a set of types dis- tinct from those of Africa), tropical Asia, the Malay Archipelago, and Australia. America is relatively poor in Cetoniinje, but possesses its own very characteristic Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble
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