Goliath. micans is an inhabitant of Africa, and not of South America, it is figured in the 2nd vol. of these Illustrations, pl. [32].
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.
Hence I have not adopted De Lamarck's specific name Africanus, which is of course applicable to all the species.
These scales, which Drury in his description called "the abdominal scales," are the dilated trochanters of the posterior pair of legs.
If this had really been the case, the Fabrician name ought surely to have yielded to that of Linnæus.