323 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calahar. 



testaceous fascia runs irregularly across near the apex thus : — a 

 short stripe near the apex on the space between the first and 

 second strise; one^ a little longer, extends farther towards the 

 apex on the next space ; another, about the same length, occu- 

 pies the next space, extending towards the base from the anterior 

 part of the last ; the next lies alongside of it, but is not quite so 

 long ; three short ones, each successively becoming smaller, start 

 from the posterior corner of the last, and stretch across to the 

 margin. Upper side of last segment of abdomen smooth and 

 sparingly punctate. Under side shining, impunctate, piceous, 

 paler in the middle ; breast, mouth and legs testaceous ; claws 

 pectinate. 



2. B. obesa, mihi. 



Convexa, nitida, supra fusco-viridis ; thorace late marginato; 



elytris quatuor maculis testaceis irregularibus ornatis, punc- 



tato-striatis, interstitiis elevatis et convexis. 

 Long. 6 lin., lat. 2| lin. 



Convex, shining, above green, or brown with green reflections ; 

 elytra, when looked at from in front, brown (except at the very 

 base), when from behind, green ; each with two testaceous 

 marks of irregular shape on the disk, one about a third of the 

 length of the elytra from the base, the other about the same 

 distance from the apex ; below brown, with legs ferruginous. 

 Head above green, rather depressed; eyes prominent, space 

 next the eyes irregularly rugose, inclination of rugosity longitu- 

 dinal ; vertex rather elongate, smooth ; clypeus quadrangular, 

 narrower in front, brown ; labrum brown, long, narrower in 

 front, margins very slightly reflexed, emarginate in front, and 

 with a slight groove in the middle for a short space, and an in- 

 dentation on each margin near the front. Mandibles brown, long, 

 fine, sharp-pointed, and projecting almost immediately straight 

 from the eyes, so that the head has a very long narrow triangular 

 muzzle ; other parts of the mouth pale ferruginous ; palpi fili- 

 form ; ligula very prominent ; paraglossse attached to it, and em- 

 bracing it, but not quite meeting in front ; mentum without a 

 middle tooth. Antennae a little longer than head and thorax, 

 brown, three first joints paler, first joint most robust, second 

 joint shortest, remainder nearly of equal length and thickness, 

 but, if anything, each becoming a very little longer and thicker 

 than the preceding. Thorax cordiform, bronzy-green, with the 

 edges semitranslucent and semitestaceous ; margins broadly re- 

 flexed, most so at the posterior angles, which are obtuse; base 

 truncate, straight in the middle, sloping obtusely to the posterior 

 angles, a broad margin intervening between the base and disk ; 

 anterior angles projecting and rounded; dorsal channel and 



