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



testaceous patch near the base of each elytron, on the fifth, 

 fourth, third, second, and part of the first interstices, parallel to 

 the side of the scutellum, though at some distance from it ; the 

 mark on the third interstice reaches farthest back, that on the 

 fourth farthest forward ; an irregular, jagged, testaceous band 

 near the apex also runs across the whole elytra, but indistinct at 

 the suture and on the exterior interstice ; the space on tlie first 

 two interstices reaching nearest to the apex, the two next farthest 

 from it, and the three last again approaching it. The apex is 

 obliquely truncate and excised, the exterior angle sharp, the 

 sutural angle prominent, but scarcely toothed ; the last segment 

 of the abdomen punctate on the upper surface ; under side of 

 body smooth, shining, impunctate. Legs slender ; tarsi simple ; 

 claws pectinate. 



I have named this species in memory of my lamented friend 

 Col. Champion, who fell at Inkermann, a naturalist whose loss 

 will be long felt. 



Belonognatha, De Chaud. 



As mentioned under the last genus, I have slightly relaxed 

 Chaudoir's characters to allow admission to the following species. 

 He describes the labrum as " very long, canaliculated at its extre- 

 mity, strongly rounded and emarginate in the middle/' I re- 

 trench the latter half of these characters. In my species the 

 labrum is " very long and canaliculated at its extremity," but it 

 is not " strongly rounded and emarginate in the middle. '^ The 

 only other character in which mine differs is, that he gives as a 

 character that the anterior tibise are furnished with a single ter- 

 minal spine, the intermediate and the posterior with the two usual 

 spines, and that the third and fourth joints of the anterior tarsi 

 are subcordiform. In my species the external spine of the an- 

 terior tibiae is small, but still is not wanting, and the joints of 

 the anterior tai'si are not subcordiform. In all other respects 

 the characters agree. 



1. B. rugiceps, mihi. 



Parum convexa, nitida, picea; capite creberrime rugoso; tho- 

 race late marginato, marginibus reflexis et testaceis; elytris 

 piceo-virescentibus, striate- punctatis, interstitiis convexis, 

 apice oblique-truncato, fortiter sinuato, marginibus testaceis, 

 singulis macula basali irregulari, et fascia interrupta apicali 

 testaceis ornatis ; antennis, ore, pedibusque testaceis. 



Long. 4 lin., lat. If lin. 



In coloration and general appearance very similar to Nycteis 

 Championi ; slightly convex, piceous ; the elytra fuscous, with a 



