124 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 



nearly smooth. Thorax small, very deeply and coarsely punctate, 

 on a hasty inspection appearing nearly circular, the anterior 

 angles being rounded-in to the anterior margin, which is almost 

 straight ; the sides behind the middle sloping more rapidly to 

 the posterior augles, which are obtuse and have a slight excision j 

 base truncate at the sides, with the middle space (which is also 

 truncate) abruptly projecting backwards, as in Lehia ; margins 

 broadly reflexed, more narrowly in front, the depression ending 

 in a deep fovea on each side behind ; the reflexed margins are 

 punctate in the same way as the rest of the thorax, but the basal 

 fovese are nearly free from punctures; dorsal line almost imper- 

 ceptible. Scutellum elongate triangular, impunctate. Elytra 

 elongate, somewhat parallel, sparingly pilose, deeply punctate- 

 striate; interstices convex, finely and sparsely punctate, the 

 punctures both on the striae and on the interstices are transverse, 

 becoming towards the sides and on the marginal space almost 

 transversely strigose; two yellow spots on each elytron, the an- 

 terior transverse, and about a fourth of the length of the elytra 

 from the base, the posterior obliquely transverse and about a 

 fourth from the apex : the spots are of a dilFerent texture from 

 the rest of the surface, somewhat raised, glossy and lustrous, 

 and nearly impunctate, and are placed on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 

 8th interstitial spaces ; on the 6th projecting most forward, on 

 the 7th most backward ; apex slightly emarginate. Under-side 

 with the prosternum and sides of breast coarsely punctate ; 

 inferior margins of thorax impunctate ; sides of the segments of 

 abdomen coarsely punctate, middle smooth, with aciculations ; 

 inflexed margin of elytra somewhat rugose. Coxae punctured. 

 Legs slender. 



I learn from !Mr. AVestwood that this is Hope's Eric/uoni, 

 although, from his description, I should not have found it out. 

 It is interesting from its approaching the New Holland species, 

 australis, Dej., to which it bears considerable resemblance. 



7. Cr. Sijmei, mihi. 



Niger vel brunneo-niger, pilosus ; antennis ferrugineis ; capite 

 parum punctato; thorace fere hexagono, pone medium latiore, 

 fortiter punctato, lateribus postei'ioribus testaccis et translu- 

 centibus, foveis elongatis duabus ad basin ; elytris crenato- 

 striatis, interstitiis leviter punctatis, maculis duabus testaceis, 

 altera antica interstitia sex et marginem tegente, ad humerum 

 ascendente, altera postica interstitia quinque tegente; pedi- 

 bus testaceis. 



Long. 3^ hn., lat. li lin. 



Of the form and facies of Pnnagceus crux-mnjor, but Muallor. 



