94 Mr. A. Murray on Culeoptera from Old Calabar. 



cature ai'e both a little raised. Underside piceo-ferruginous, 

 pubescent. Legs piceo-testaceous. 

 One specimen only. 



2. Sinoxylon fumatum. 



Antice testaceo-ferrugineum, postice gradatim piceum, parum 

 pubescens ; thoi'ace postice Isevi ; elytris irregulariter punc- 

 tatis, fortius versus apicem^ apice oblique declivOj singulis 

 duobus minutis tuberculis instructis. 



Long. 2|-3 lin., lat. 1-lg^ lin. 



Testaceo-ferruginous until past the middle of the elytra, when 

 the colour becomes gradually darker, until at the apex it is 

 piceous. The head and thoracic truncature are rather darker 

 than the rest of the thorax. Head finely granulose, with a 

 transverse curved depression or line behind the epistome. Man- 

 dibles piceous. Thorax broader than long, with the truncature 

 covered with dentiform tubercles pointing backwards ; the pos- 

 terior part of the thorax smooth, shining, slightly pubescent, 

 and with traces of very fine tubercles next the tubercular anterior 

 part. Scutellum subquadrate, raised. Elytra very cylindrical, 

 irregularly punctate, faintly at the base, and gradually more 

 coarsely towards the apex, thinlyclothed with fine woolly hairs; the 

 apical truncature very slightly oblique, being very nearly vertical, 

 as if the body had been cut through ; the truncature is well- 

 defined, slightly sloping inw^ai'ds to the suture, which is distinctly 

 raised, as well as the margin of the truncature, all round, except 

 at its top ; a little within it, near the upper margin, are on each 

 elytron two scarcely perceptible tubercles in the relative position 

 which would have been occupied by the termination of the two 

 inner costse usually met with in other species. Underside finely 

 pubescent. 



There is an undescribed species from Port Philip which is very 

 like this ; but it is narrower and has no tubercles at all on the 

 apical truncature. In it the elytra are more coarsely punctate, 

 particularly toward the base ; the thorax (except the truncature) 

 is shining and very finely and sparingly punctured; the piceous 

 termination to the elytra is less decided, and the reddish colour 

 brighter. I would call it S. rufescens. 



Two specimens received. 



3. Sinoxylon nitidipenne. 



Atrum, interdum plus minusve piceum vel piceo-ferrugineum ; 

 elytris nitidis, leviter punctatis, truncatura apicali superiore 

 margine rotundato sex-dentata ; subtus castaneo pubescens. 



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



Black, varying more or less, both in place and degree, to 



