102. Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
punctatis, obsolete nervosis, basi pilis ochraceis obductis, 
fascia saturatius castanea ante apicem pilis albidis et pos- 
tice pilis ochraceis marginata, altera fascia interrupta vel 
potius linea tenui transversa interrupta punctorum albido- 
rum paulo pone scutellum ; antennis pedibusque castaneis. 
Long. 5 lin., lat. 14 lin. 
Chestnut, with the apex of the elytra paler or ochraceous 
and a band immediately before the lighter space darker chest- 
nut, and here and there spattered with whitish and ochreous 
scales; linear-elongate, narrow, subcylindric; the head exca- 
vated in front, clothed with yellowish-white hairs. Prothorax 
broadest in front, unequal, with depressions on the sides and 
in front of the scutellum, and with two rather large tubercles 
near the anterior margin; sides sinuate, covered with numerous 
transverse fine granulous strie, giving the effect of punctures. 
Scutellum black, deeply sunk in the elytra, nearly vertical, 
elongate, with the apex rounded and somewhat knobbed. 
Elytra narrowly linear, granulously thickly finely punctate, 
obsoletely costate, clothed with ochraceous hairs on each side 
of the scutellum, and with two interrupted slender bands of 
white scales, the anterior one a little behind the scutellum, 
confined to one or two small spots of white hairs or scales, the 
posterior immediately in front of the darker band of chestnut, 
which is just before the pale apex; the anterior margin of this 
pale apex is clothed with ochreous-yellow scales, which gives 
a light border to each side of the darker band, making it ap- . 
pear darker in colour than it really is. The antenne and legs 
chestnut. Underside of body brown, except the sides and 
margins of the sutures and segments of the abdomen, which 
are chestnut. 
The above description was written before I saw that given in 
Dr. Candéze’s ‘ Elatérides Nouveaux,’ and I have allowed it 
to stand, as perhaps useful to some as a second description, 
and at all events convenient to those who may not possess the 
Supplement to Dr. Candéze’s ‘ Elateride,’ which has been 
published under the above title in the Mémoires of the Roy. 
Acad. of Brussels. 
This is another instance of the occurrence of Brazilian forms 
at Old Calabar. No D¢lobotarsus has previously been found 
out of South America; and as it is a genus of remarkable 
characters and striking form, there is no room for referring its 
affinity to some other type which may occur in the Old World. 
It is what I should term a crucial example of the occurrence 
of a purely American form in Africa proper. But another 
noteworthy circumstance is, that this species is not (as is the 
case with most of the strictly American forms which we have 
