Mr. A. Murray on Coleoj)tera from Old Calahar, 449 



sternum sat latum et prominens retro paulo projiciens. Scu- 

 tellum parvum. Elytra dongata, parallela, striata, sat con- 

 vcxa, apice abrupte declivia et leviter emarginata baud trun- 

 cata. Pedes mediocres. Tibiae anticse dilatatse, subtus exca- 

 vatse, intus emargiiiatse. Tarsi breves, traiisversi, fere monili- 

 formes, antici breviores ; in foemina, et supra et subtus nitidi 

 et politi, sine setis vel squamis, ciliis ad marginem anteriorem 

 singulorum adstrictis exceptis ; in mari, antici setis longis 

 instructi, ceteris ut in fcemina*; unguiculi simplices. Corpus 

 elongatuni, parallelum et parum convexura. Abdomen seg- 

 mentis quinque, quorum primum et secundum conglutinata 

 sunt. 



1. St. Whitei, mihi. PI. XIII. %. 6. 



Nigrum, politum, nitidum; capite foveis quatuor fronte impressis, 

 quadrangulariter positis, et lineis impunctatis tribus lateribus 

 junctis ; thorace elytris angustiore, postice longitudinaliter 

 bifoveolato et linea dorsali, postice profundiore impresso, 

 angulis posterioribus rectis, non productis; elytris striatis, 

 striis leviter punctatis, interstitiis impunctatis planis. 



Long. 6 lin., lat. ^ lin. 



Black, polished and shining. Antennae short, robust, com- 

 pressed and dilated towards the apex ; first three joints smooth, 

 with one or two large punctures on the first and second, the 

 rest dull pubescent, with a broad, flat, polished line running up 

 the middle of the compressed sides, both above and below, till 

 near the end of the last joint ; some of the joints with one or 

 two punctures on the polished space. Head smooth and polished. 

 Mandibles above having some resemblance to the beak of a 

 hawk, and hollowed out below. Clypeus marked off from the 

 head by a straight impunctate line, which ends at each side in a 

 deep puncture or fovea, from which a shorter and fainter line 

 runs obliquely outwards and forwards to the exterior base of the 

 mandibles; from each of these two fovese an impunctate line 

 runs straight backwards and very slightly outwards, ending in an- 

 other deep elongate puncture or fovea on each side of the front 

 between the eyes, so that the marking on the front consists of 

 three lines forming three sides of a square, each corner being 

 marked by a deep puncture, the fourth or posterior side of the 

 square being open or without any line ; besides these punctures, 

 there are two others on the inner edge of each eye, one at the 

 middle, which partly interrupts a longitudinal groove which 



* I make this statement only from the examination of a male specimen 

 of St. Whitei and a female of St. solidum, these being all which have come 

 into my hands. But I have no doubt it is correct, as I find a similar dif- 

 ference in structure in the other Morionidce. 



Ann. ^ Mag, N. Hist. Ser. 2. Fo/. xix. 29 



