96 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
which is found out of the limits of the northern hemisphere : 
all the rest come from Europe, Siberia, North America, &e. 
I think we must regard it as a straggler which has passed the 
barrier of the Sahara either before or after it became dry land. 
It appears to be distributed all over Africa proper, having 
been met with in Senegal, Guinea, Old Calabar, the Cape of 
Good Hope, and Caffraria. 
CarpiopHorvs, Esch. 
Cardiophorus accensus, Cand. Elat. iii. p. 178. 
One or two specimens received. 
MELANOXANTHUS, Esch. 
Melanoxanthus melanocephalus, Germ. Zeitsch. v. p. 191 ; 
Cand. Elat. 11. 512. 
Elater melanocephalus, Thunb. Nov, Spec. Ins. Diss. iii. p. 63; Oliv., 
Fab., Herbst, &c. 
Var. subsuturalis. 
This species seems nearly cosmopolitan. It is found, not 
rarely, in Brazil. It occurs in India, the Malaccas, and gene- 
rally in all the tropical regions of Asia from Arabia to China. 
It has also been met with in Madagascar and the Mauritius, 
and Bourbon Island. 
The specimen (only one) which I have received from Old 
Calabar agrees with the ordinary type, with the exception that 
the black mark on the thorax is a little wider and extends 
further back on the thorax, and that the black apex of the 
elytra extends further up them and runs narrowly and feebly 
up the suture for a short space. I have therefore treated it as 
a variety. 
HETERODERES, Latr. 
Heteroderes coctus, Cand. Elat. 11. p. 366. 
This is one of the commonest of the Elateride of Old 
Calabar. 
IscHIODONTUS, Cand. 
Ischiodontus monachus, Cand. Elat. ii. p. 120. 
One specimen received. 
PsePHus, Cand. 
§ 1. Third article of antennz smaller than the fourth. 
1. Psephus limonioides. 
Generi Limonio facie similis (ex. gr. Limonio fulvipilis, Cand.), 
fusco-niger, parum nitidus; fronte convexa, antice im- 
