154 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar, 



less to expect to escape such mistakes. I see the ablest and 

 best-informed entomologists^ both at home and abroad, con- 

 stantly falling into them, and I am not so unreasonable or self- 

 confident as to expect a better fate. All I can say is, that when I 

 do commit such errors, they are made " not in consequence of 

 neglect, but in spite of attention." 



That such errors are not much more numerous than they will 

 be found to be, is greatly owing to the kindness of my friends, 

 Mr. Adam White of the British Museum, and M. Chevrolat and 

 M. Reiche of Paris, who have on every occasion laid freely open 

 to me the extensive stores of information which they possess, — 

 an assistance the value of which only those who have been en- 

 gaged on similar works can justly appreciate. 



I have not attempted to make this a work of synonymy, but 

 in recording the species which have been already described, I 

 have simply confined myself to giving their names, with one 

 reference to the place where a description will be found; and 

 while I have endeavoured to follow the rule of priority in select- 

 ing the name of the species, I have by no means followed that 

 rule in choosing the reference to the description (the oldest de- 

 scriptions being generally the most insufficient), but I have 

 chosen that which appeared to me the best and was at the same 

 time most generally accessible. 



Cicindelidse. 

 CiciNDELA, Linn. 



1. C. senegalensisj Dej. 1. 117. 



Capite thoraceque viridi-cupreis, subrugosis ; elytris viridi-seneis ; 

 margine laterali, lunula humerali apicalique, fascia media 

 obliqua sinuata suturaque subsinuata abbreviata, albis. 



Long. 4i~ lin., lat. li lin. 



Only a few specimens have been received of this species. 

 They vary a little from the usual form of senegalensis in having 

 the thorax comparatively a little narrower, and the ground- 

 colour of the elytra being less green, it being reddish-brassy 

 with green reflections j but the markings are the same, and it 

 corresponds in other respects ; therefore I have no doubt it is 

 merely a variety of senegalensis. 



2. C. vicina, Dej. 5. 244. 

 Var. confusa, mihi. 



Subcylindrica, supra cupreo-viridi senea ; elytris margine laterali 

 subinterrupto, lunula humerali subinterrupta, altera apicis 



