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



the front; mentum with a tooth in the middle; hgula short, 

 narrow, truncate; pai-aglossre broad, truncate, adhering to the 

 ligula throughout their length ; labial palpi short and robust, last 

 joint somewhat securiform ; maxillary palpi longer, last joint 

 subcylindric, depressed, and truncate; mandibles robust, elon- 

 gate, and rounded in front, a few scattered hairs along their ex- 

 terior, without teeth along the interior margin ; antenna about 

 as long as the head and thorax, flattened, gradually increasing 

 in size to the end, the last joint more than twice as long as 

 the preceding ; thorax as long as broad, cordiform, surrounded 

 with a border along the sides, flat anteriorly, but broader and 

 reflexed behind, ending in a fovea near the basal angles, which 

 are nearly right-angled; no emargination in front of them ; a 

 dorsal longitudinal line not reaching quite to the front, a semi- 

 circular line in front, and a transverse line a little before the 

 base, which is truncate and almost straight ; elytra elongate and 

 nearly parallel, with a reflexed margin or raised keel running 

 along the exterior sides to near the extremity, where it termi- 

 nates, and then another keel commences a little within it, with 

 a more prominent fold, which continues for a very short space, 

 and is then replaced by an ordinary raised margin, which dis- 

 appears near the apex ; an inner raised callosity or rounded ridge 

 commences near the above fold, and continues parallel to it and 

 the raised margin till near the apex, where it joins it, and both 

 cease. Under a powT,rful lens, the elytra are seen to be sparingly 

 and faintly punctate; one or two rows of deeper, distant 

 punctures (eight or nine in number) occur on the disk, and a 

 series of fove?e runs along the marginal depressed space next the 

 raised margin. Under side and legs a little paler than upper 

 side, shining, bearing throughout a few scattered punctures, 

 and somewhat pubescent, more particularly the tibiae and tarsi. 

 Anterior legs with thighs without teeth, but with a hollow space 

 on the under side ; tibiae strongly arched and very deeply emar- 

 ginate on the inside, the margin of the excised space very closely 

 fringed with pubescence, and the tooth behind the emargination 

 slightly incurved, with a few hairs projecting; intermediate and 

 posterior legs simple; coxse of the former adjoining each other; 

 anterior pair more separated, and posterior pair widest apart ; 

 trochanters of the latter large and broad; tarsi of all the legs 

 short and robust ; claws simple. 



I have named the above species of this rare and interesting- 

 genus after Mr. Wylie, to whom I am indebted for this as well as 

 many other valuable species discovered and sent home by him. 



labriun entire) is identical with the Goniotropis of Gray, notwithstanding 

 this apparent though trifling discordance in their characters. 



