118 Mr. A. jMurray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 



elongate deeply-punctured fovea on each side from the eyes for- 

 wardj a few scattered punctures on the raised vertex between 

 these fovese, behind which there is a transverse series of fainter 

 punctures ; a deep oblique puncture or line at the anterior angles. 

 Labrum emarginate and pitchy-black. Palpi pitchy-black, 

 with the terminal joints pilose; antennae as long as half the 

 body, black and pilose, slightly thicker in the middle than at 

 either extremity ; neck smooth and irapunctate. Thorax nar- 

 rowed in front, broadest behind the middle, truncate at the 

 base, anterior angles meeting the neck, anterior margin be- 

 tween them nearly straight, very coarsely punctate, sparsely 

 pilose ; narrowly margined, and with a raised space within the 

 margin, narrow in front, wider behind, on which the punctua- 

 tion is fainter ; an elongate fovea on each side at the base, and 

 a minute tooth at the posterior angles, which are rounded and 

 obtuse ; no dorsal line. Scutellum minute. Elytra rather con- 

 vex, broad, black, with two fulvous spots on each, one near the 

 base, the other near the apex, both transverse ; the coloured 

 spaces not raised, nor of a different texture from the rest of the 

 elytra ; deeply puuctate-striate, the punctures on the striae trans- 

 verse ; interstices convex and punctured, pilose, the hairs black 

 on the black parts of the elytra, fulvous on the fulvous spots ; 

 the anterior of these spots commences on the 3rd interstice, and 

 is continued on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th interstices, the 

 extent and form of the fulvous marking varying in different 

 individuals ; the posterior marking is confined to the 4th, 5th, 

 6th, 7th and 8th interstices ; the 9th interstice and marginal 

 space are not encroached on by the fulvous spots ; the marginal 

 space is marked by a series of cross-wrinkles rather than punc- 

 tures ; the apex is slightly emarginate, but not truncate. Under- 

 side black, pilose, hairs piceous ; prosternum sparsely and deeply 

 punctate; inferior margin of thorax impunctate; sides of meso- 

 tiiorax and metathorax coarsely punctate; segments of abdomen 

 finely and acicularly punctured, with some large, coarse punc- 

 tures or foveae on their sides ; inflexed margin of elytra finely 

 punctate. Legs black and pilose. 



This species should be placed near the Panagaus festivus of 

 Dejean. At first I supposed it to be the Panaycsus tropicus of 

 Hope, and I have distributed it among my correspondents under 

 that name, but I am afraid I have been hasty in doing so. I 

 have not seen Hope's species in nature ; but Mr. Westwood's 

 recent appointment to the curatorship of the Entomological 

 Collection at Oxford (an appointment on which all entomo- 

 logists must felicitate themselves) having rendered Mr. Hope's 

 collection again useful to science, I have availed myself of his 

 kindness to ascertain (so far as can be done without actual in- 



