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



deeply and distinctly punctured, somewhat shining on the disk. 

 The thorax is very narrow, elongate, deeply and closely punc- 

 tured, and pubescent ; it is slightly narrowed in front, and a 

 little more so behind ; its greatest breadth is about the middle. 

 At first sight from above, it looks as if it were cylindrical, but 

 on being examined from the side, a narrow ridge is seen to run 

 along, forming the margin of the thorax. An indication of a 

 longitudinal line, and of a fovea in the middle of the base, may 

 be traced from the disposition of the punctuation, but nothing 

 more. The elytra are twice as broad as the thorax, elongate, 

 convex, contracted by a sinuation a little behind the base, and 

 widened out posteriorly; their extremity is truncate, and the 

 truncation is somewhat cut-in on each elytron ; they are pubes- 

 cent and strongly punctate-striate ; the intervals are somewhat 

 raised and irregularly punctate ; the three outer strise and inter- 

 vals are curved inwards at the apex and reach the suture, cutting 

 off the inner striae, so that they do not reach the termination of 

 the elytra. The legs are rufous, with the exception of the ends 

 of the thighs, which are fuscescent or blackish. 



This species approaches nearest in form to D. cyanea, Buq., 

 but is readily distinguished by the red breast, red legs, &c., 

 parts which in cyanea are wholly black. It is of a more elon- 

 gate form than D. emarginata, Fab., and one-half longer; its 

 colour wants the bluish tinge of emarginata, and the form of 

 the thorax is different. 



Gale RITA, Fab. 

 1. G. femoralis, mihi. 



Nigra, pilosa; antennarum articulo primo femoribusque ferru- 

 gineis ; thorace oblongo-cordato ; elytris sulcatis, interstitiis 

 concavis, subtilissime transversim rugosis, pilosis. 



Long. lOi lin., lat. 3| lin. 



Black, with the exception of the first joint of the antennae 

 and the thighs, which are ferruginous ; the end of the terminal 

 joint of the palpi is slightly ferruginous. The antennse are 

 pilose, which causes them to look fuscous towards the apex. 

 The head is rather large, elongate, punctate, pubescent, and it 

 has two longitudinal irregular fovese between the eyes. The 

 clypeus has one or two punctures on its anterior margin. The 

 thorax is broader than the head, though not very much so ; it 

 is of an elongate- cordate form, rounded in front, a little nar- 

 rowed posteriorly; its posterior angles are projecting and 

 slightly raised ; the projecting angles are rounded. It is some- 

 what convex, punctate on the disk, and transversely rugose- 



