Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 109 
cavata; elytris postice purpureis; abdomine segmentis 
erebre antice punctulatis. 
Long. 4 lin., lat. 2 lin. 
This may be a small variety or one of the sexes of A. Bon- 
vouloirit ; but there are one or two points of distinction which 
seem to me to warrant its being provisionally described as dis- 
tinct. It is smaller, and the elytra are purple behind, that 
colour encroaching more or less on the green at the base; the 
head is more deeply excavated; the scutellum is bi-ridged 
transversely at the base, and the segments of the abdomen are 
finely and closely punctate along the anterior margin. 
Several specimens have been received. I am informed by 
Mr. Edward Saunders that in some cabinets it stands under 
the unpublished name of A. capensis, which I have preserved. 
4, Agrilus Saundersii. Pl. VIII. fig. 2. 
Mnescenti-olivaceus, apice parum cupreo ; elytris punctis, sex 
albido-pilosis (duobus ad basin, duobus ante medium, duo- 
bus propinquioribus post medium) instructis. 
Long. 34 lin., lat. 2 lin. 
In general appearance similar to Agrilus sexguttatus, but 
smaller and narrower in proportion, also similarly marked 
with six small spots of white scales. Brassy olivaceous, 
slightly coppery at the apex of the elytra; surface finely gra- 
nulous. Head with the forehead very prominent, and with a 
longitudinal groove separating it into two lobes. Thorax sub- 
quadrate, slightly widest in front, transversely finely acicu- 
larly rugose, behind with a broad transverse curved depression 
concave to the front, with a slightly deeper impression in the 
middle and another on each side. There is also a some- 
what curved impression near the middle in front; median 
lobe short, curved. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra 
finely granular, with a small depression, full of whitish scales, 
at the inner angle of the shoulder; and a larger median 
depression, filled with whitish scales, somewhat before the 
middle, and a still larger one (although all actually small) 
behind the middle and closer to the suture; the apex doubly 
emarginate, more deeply next the suture, with a large tooth 
at the sutural angle and another at each of the external angles: 
exterior to this external tooth there are one or two minute 
denticulations. Underside and legs greenish brassy, sparingly 
clothed with a longish whitish pubescence. The upper margins 
of the segments as seen beyond the elytra clothed with whitish 
pubescence. Posterior tarsi with the first article equal in 
length to the three following; in the anterior tarsi the first 
article not quite so long. 
