20 Mr. A. Murray on Coleopt era from Old Calabar. 



culi ^ bi'eves, 3 vel plures, supra-axillares, fasciculati, pilosi, 

 apice 3-4!-flori ; llores sessiles, parvi, cano pubescentes. 



The following only known species will be described in the 

 third volume of my ' Contributions to Botany :' — 



Syrrheonema fasciculatum, nob. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. xiii. 

 124. — In insula Fernando Po : v. s. in herb. Hook. (Mann, 

 192). 



[To be continued.] 



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

 Coast of Africa. By Andrew Murray, F.L.S. 



[Continued from vol. xix. p. 340.] 



Cucujidae. 



Cheilopoma*, nov. gen. 



Maxillfe membranaceous, not concealed by jugular pieces ; 

 mandibles unequally trilobed at the apex (the lobes or teeth 

 unequal in length), and tridentate on the inner side and with a 

 membranous plate at the base; ligula with its apex bilobed 

 and membranaceous ; both labial and maxillary palpi subcylin- 

 drical, moderately stout; labium entire. Clypeus very large, 

 prominent, triangular, and projecting, almost covering the man- 

 dibles. Labrum almost imperceptible, narrow and membrana- 

 ceous, Antennre as long as the head and the thorax, and 

 moniliforra; all joints nearly equal, except the last and first two; 

 the first is pear-shaped, the second a little longer, and the last 

 twice the length of any of the rest. Anterior tarsi tetramerous 

 (in the male ?), middle tarsi pentamerous, and posterior pro- 

 bably also pentamerous, but broken off in the only specimen 

 received ; first article smallest ; the last article in the anterior 

 tarsi twice the length of the last article in the middle tarsi ; 

 femora and tibiae short. Body flat, depressed, and with the 

 sides parallel. Head rather broad. Thorax with parallel sides, 

 rounded posteriorly. 



Cheilopoma castaneum. 



Dilute castaneum vel testaceo-ferrugineum, 



nitidum, leviter punctatum ; elytris striato- 



punctatis, interstitiis irregulariter punc- 



tatis. 

 Long. 4^ lin., lat. 1^ lin. 



* From x^t^ofj « Up, and ira^a, a lid, in allusion to the large clypeus 

 covering the greater part of the mandibles. 



