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



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

 West Coast of Africa, By Andrew Murray, Edinburgh. 



[Continued from p. 123.] 



SphaeridiidsB. 



Cyclonotum, Erich. 



1. C. Mulsanti, mihi. 



Nigrum, nitidum, convexum, subtilissime punctatum. Elytris 

 lateribus fortiter declivis, versus apicem repansis, decem- 

 punctato-striatis, striis postice profundioribus ; interstitiis 

 siue punctis majoribus, stria suturali scutellum attingente, et 

 ceteris profundiore, striis sextis et septimis baud marginem 

 attingentibus, ceteris utrinque inclusis. Pedibus piceis. 



Long. 2^ lin., lat. 1| lin. 



Shining black, convex, very finely punctate. Head very 

 smooth, with the faintest trace of a lowering of the surface on 

 each side of the middle of the front before the eyes. Thorax 

 deeply emarginate in front, with the anterior angles projecting ; 

 sides with margins slightly edged, and somewhat rounded in to 

 the posterior angles. Scutellum moderate. Elytra with ten 

 punctate strire, which are deepest at the apex ; the interstices are 

 not impressed with larger punctures in addition to those of the 

 general surface; the 6th and 7th do not reach the apex, but are 

 embraced by the remainder on each side; the sutural stria, 

 which is deepest, reaches the scutellum ; the sides of the elytra 

 decline sharply, so as to be nearly vertical, and the margin, par- 

 ticularly at the apex, is repanded almost like a hollow shelf. 

 The legs are piceous. 



I have named this species in honour of my esteemed friend 

 M. Mulsant of Lyons, who first pointed out characters for the 

 distinction of the species of this genus in his Monograph of it 

 in the 7th volume of the ' Annals of the Society of Agriculture 

 of Lyons. ^ 



SPHiERIDIUM, Eab. 

 1. S. Senegalense, Casteln. vol. ii. p. 61. 



Nigrum, nitidum, orbiculare, convexum, subtilissime et dense 

 punctatum, partibus oris, thoracis et elytrorum marginibus 

 atque suturse apice flavo-testaceis ; elytrorum disco macula rufa 

 obscura vix perspicua instructo; subtus obscurum, nigrum, 

 pubescens; pedibus glabris fiavo-testaceis, femoribus nigro- 

 fasciatis. 



Long. 11 lin., lat. 1 lin. 



Castelnau's description omits the scarcely visible red spot on 

 the disk of the elytra, and describes the apex of the suture as 



