Mr. A. Murray on Coleopt era from Old Calabar. 85 



If a number of Brazilian and African specimens were mixed 

 together, I think it would be impossible to assign them all cor- 

 rectly to their different countries, although probably the majority 

 might be successfully guessed at. 



Not rare in Old Calabar. 



The same species also extends to Natal. 



2. Apate muricata, Fab. Syst. El. 



Nigra; capite piano, epistomate parum fulvo piloso 

 antice; thorace uti'inque antice dentibus parum 

 uncinatis instructor elytris profunde reticulatis, 

 nitidissimis. 



Long. 14 lin., lat. 4^ lin. 



This is a large, handsome insect (the finest of the 

 family), cylindrical, black, with the elytra strongly 

 impressed with deep coarse reticulations, and the 

 raised parts glittering and shining. Head punctate posteriorly, 

 almost impunctate in front, leaving smooth shining spaces 

 about the middle and on each side, with a longitudinal line 

 down the middle, somewhat more deeply impressed at a point 

 in the centre, free from hair or pubescence, but covered on 

 the sides and partially on the front with round, small tuber- 

 cles. Epistome with a projecting point in the middle and a 

 fringe of yellow pile. Labrum emarginate, almost bilobed, 

 the margin of the lobes fringed with yellow pile; palpi 

 and club of the antennae piceous. Thorax widest in front, 

 opaque, except behind, divided as it were transversely into 

 two parts; the anterior part broad and large, and covered 

 with denticulations, which at the anterior angles become de- 

 veloped into hooks, the denticulations being triangular projecting 

 teeth near the anterior angles, on the sides and front flattened 

 triangular spaces slightly elevated ; the posterior half finely 

 aciculate or subtuberculate, the tubercles here being a modifica- 

 tion of the same triangular denticulations, only much finer and 

 more closely adpressed and flattened, in the centre towards the 

 base almost smooth ; a slight central longitudinal line runs 

 forward from the middle of the base ; there is an indentation on 

 each side of the middle of the base, making the centre into a 

 lobe; the posterior angles are rounded eminences, with two 

 somewhat transverse impressions on the sides. Scutellum 

 rounded, opaque, lying in a hollow. Elytra parallel, cylin- 

 drical, deeply and broadly reticulated, with the elevated spaces 

 very bright ; there is a longitudinal hollow for about a line and 

 a half behind the scutellum ; the base is straight, the shoulders 

 rather prominent and nearly smooth ; the apical truncature 

 is hollowed out, and the excavated space shining and nearly 



