340 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 



XXXV. — List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the 

 West Coast of Africa. By Andrew Murray, Edinburgh. 



[Continued from vol. i. ser. 3. p. 135.] 

 Chlaeniidse {continued). 

 Ectenognathus, mihi (eVrevr)? and <yvddo<;). 

 Mentum dente medio simplice. Palpi tenues, elongati et sub- 

 cylindrici (articulis ultimis adhuc \ N 



ignotis). Mandibuli valde proji- 

 cientes, elongati, fortiter arcuati 

 et apice acutissimo. Maxillse 

 spinis paucis armatse. Labrum 

 subquadratum, postice parum an- 

 gustatum, levissime emarginatum. 

 Antennae filiformes, articulo ter- 

 tio cseteris longiore. Prothorax 

 subcordatus, antice emarginatus, 

 postice truncatus, margine re- 

 flexo. Elytra prothorace latiora, 

 quadrato-ovalia, parum convexa. 

 Tarsi marium ignoti, foeminarum 

 ut in cseteris generibus Chlanii- 

 darum. 



1. E. Dryptoides, mihi. 



Supra nigro-virens et satis opacus, subtus niger et politus ; 



capite antice, ore, gula, suturse apice et pedibus testaceis; 



capite postice leviter granuloso, antice impunctato; thorace 



fortiter et dense punctato, margine late et profunde reflexo ; 



elytris opacis, leviter punctato-striatis, interstitiis transversim 



papillose punctatis atque transversim levissime aciculatis; 



subtus prosterno leviter punctato, mesosterno et metasterno 



fortiter punctatis. 

 Long. 6| lin., lat. 2^ lin. 



Rather narrow; greenish black and opake above, black and 

 polished below ; the anterior part of the head, the basal joint of 

 the antennas, the parts of the mouth, the throat, the extreme 

 margins of the sides of the thorax, the reflexed margin of the 

 elytra, particularly towards the apex, and a narrow margin on 

 their sides and suture near their apex, and the legs, testaceous. 

 Head finely granulose behind, smoother on the vertex, which is 

 somewhat raised ; front smooth and impunctate, with a trans- 

 verse shallow depression in the middle opposite the anterior 

 part of the eyes, an irregular depression and some granulose 

 punctures on each side close to the base of the antennae; the 



