Mr. A. Murray o?i Culeoptera from Old Calabar. 123 



Black. Tlie head is impuiictate, but finely rugose between 

 the antenna*, with an elongate fovea on each side, in which the 

 rugosities almost take the appearance of punctures. The an- 

 tenna; are black and piceous towards the apex. The clypeus is 

 smooth and elevated in the middle. The thorax may rather be 

 described as truncate-cordate than as hexagonal, but as both 

 the anterior and posterior portions of the lateral margins are 

 somewhat straight, either expression may be used without being 

 inconsistent with the truth ; it is faintly and not very closely 

 ))unctured, s[)aringly pilose, the margins reflexed, the dorsal 

 line distinct, but reaching neither to the front nor the base; a 

 deep longitudinal fovea is on each side of it at the base ; the 

 base is truncate, a broad sj)ace in the middle projecting very 

 slightly backwards; the anterior angles are narrow, and pro- 

 ject a little, and are rounded; the posterior angles are right- 

 angled, and have the usual excised tooth. The scutellum is small 

 and impunctate, and has the sides gently curved. The elytra 

 are convex and obovate, pilose or pubescent, deeply punctate- 

 strir.te, the punctures faint ; the interstices are convex and finely 

 punctate ; the spots are red, with a tinge of vermilion ; the an- 

 terior occupies four interstitial spaces (the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th), 

 and also the marginal space ; but the raised margin itself (which 

 is prominent) is not coloured; the posterior spot occupies the 

 same strise, but not the marginal space ; the spots are of the 

 same texture as the rest of the elytra, and are not raised. The 

 marginal space might be called the last interstitial space, as it is 

 broad and raised like the rest, but in addition to the fine punc- 

 tuation found in the interstitial spaces, it has a series of larger 

 pits of various sizes, with a raised point in their middle. The 

 hairs are piceous, except on the red spots, where they also are 

 red ; they are red on the under side of the body, which is 

 sparsely punctured on the presternum, breast, and sides of the 

 segments of the abdomen (their middle portion being slightly 

 aciculated). The tarsi are piceous. 



6. Cr. Erichsoni, Hope. Fig. 5. 



Niger, rugose punctatus ; tliorace fere circulari, ad 

 basin truncato et in medio retro projieiente, 

 lateribus refiexis, rugose punctato ; elytris punc- 

 tato-striatis, maculis duabus parvis fulvis elevatis, 

 singulis interstitia quatuor tegentibus. 



Long. 8 lin., lat. 3^ lin. 



Black. Head moderate rugoselj"^ punctate, with a longitudinal 

 fovea on each side in front, and a smooth rounded elevation be- 

 tween them, margined on each side in front of thi- eyes. Pal])i 



