22 Mr. A. Murray 07i Coleopteru from Old Calabar. 



tris et pedibus testaceis, sericeo pubescens, levissime punc- 

 tatus. 

 Long. lin.^ lat. lin. 



Allied to C. bicolor of Sturm, in the text of his Deutschlands 

 Fauna, vol. xvi. p. 107 (C rufipennis, Dej., of Sturm, in plate, op, 

 cit. pi. 319), but is readily recognized by having a projecting tri- 

 angular tooth at the anterior angles of the thorax. It is more 

 shining silky and finely pubescent than most of the other spe- 

 cies, and its punctuation is so fine as to be almost imperceptible. 

 The thorax, besides the projecting tooth at its anterior angles, 

 has a very slight prominence on the surface a little behind 

 it. The tooth is triangular in shape, and points obliquely out- 

 wards. 



In the packing of boxes from Old Calabar. 



Murmidius ovalis, Beck [Ceutocerus advena, Schuppel), 

 Germar, Ins. Nov. i. p. 85. 



In the packing of boxes from Old Calabar. 



Lathridiidae. 

 Holoparamecus Kunzei, Aube, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1843, p. 245. 



Readily distinguished from the other species described by its 

 having a longitudinal dorsal fovea in the middle of the disk of 

 the thorax. 



Alive in the packing of boxes from Old Calabar. This spe- 

 cies was first found by M. Kunze in fungi coming from Brazil. 

 Its mode of occurrence throws some uncertainty on its aboriginal 

 habitat. 



Dermestidae. 



Dermestes subcostatus. 



Supra totus brunneus, punctatus, pube brunnea et grisea 

 pubescente ; elytris subcostatis, apice rotundato ; abdomine 

 pube cinerea vestito, utrinque bitessellato. 



Long. lin., lat. lin. 



Above concolorous, dark brown, clothed with dark and paler 

 brown pubescence mixed, producing a dark-brown pubescence; 

 punctate. The thorax is twice and a half the length of the ely- 

 tra, and has the usual round depression at the base between the 

 middle and the posterior angles. The elytra are subcostate, but 

 the punctuation continues irregularly over all. The underside 

 is clothed with cinereous whitish pubescence, and the anterior 

 part of each segment of the abdomen has on each side a mark 

 clothed with dark-brown pubescence, next the margin of the 

 abdomen, and another between it and the middle, giving the 



