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



Ccslocr/Era, Marseul. 



1. C. Costifera, Mars., Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. France, 3 ser. vol. v. 



p. 430. 



Ovalis, convexa, nitida, nigra, ore antennis pedibusque fusco- 

 ferrugineis ; fronte punctulata, foveolata marginataque ; pro- 

 noto rugose punctato, margine laterali elevato, ad angulum 

 bifoveolato; elytris sutura, margine, externa sextaque costis 

 integris, margine innexo bisulcato; propygidio pygidioque 

 dense punctulatis; metasterno in medio sulcato primoque 

 ventris segmento grosse punctatis ; tibiis anticis latis extus 

 multidenticulatis, posticis apicem versus parce spinosis. 



Long. 1^ lin., lat. § lin. 



Tribalus, Leconte. 



1. T. agrestis, Mars., Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. France, 3 ser. 

 vol. iii. p. 155. 



Orbicularis, convexus, niger, nitidus ; antennis pedibusque fer- 

 rugineis ; fronte concava, puncticulata ; pronoto punctis parcis 

 et tenuibus, stria marginali 'interrupta; elytris margine in- 

 flexo, bistriato, 2 striis subhumeralibus integris, dorsali unica 

 media brevi, obsoleta, grosse et raro punctatis. 



Long. ]^ lin., lat. 1 lin. 



NITIDULID.E. 



Carpopliilida?. 



Brachypeplus, Erich. 



1. B. rubidus, mihi. 



Nitidus, sat latus et depressus, l«3te rufo-ferrugineus, capite 

 elytrorumque apice nigris ; capite punctato, antice medio 

 leviter elevato. Thorace lato, punctato, postice medio bi-im- 

 presso, et angulis posticis excavatis. Scutello lato, fere rotun- 

 dato. Elytris plus quam sesqui thorace longioribus, rugose 

 punctato- striatis, striis haud apicem et marginem attingen- 

 tibus, interstitiis leviter, apice et margine dense et rugose 

 punctatis. Abdomine quinque segmentorum composito, pri- 

 mis duobus brevibus, ceteris longioribus, ultimo longissimo, 

 supra quatuor segmentis solum aspectabilibus, aciculariter 

 punctatis, marginatis, apice ultimi segmenti nigricante. Pe- 

 dibus punctatis ; femoribus subtus fere la?vibus. 



Long. 3t lin., lat. 1 lin. 



Shining, rather broad and much depressed; of a clear ferru- 

 ginous red colour, except the head and apical half of the elytra, 

 which are black, and the extreme point of the last segment of 

 the abdomen, which is blackish. Head punctate, impressed on 



