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



runs along the side of the eye and head, and the other behind, 

 where the groove terminates at the posterior inner angle of the 

 eye. There is no tumour behind the eye, but its posterior mar- 

 gin is slightly encroached on by the black chitinous substance 

 of the head, but without the contour of the eye being altered. 

 The head behind is smooth and rather convex. Thorax sub- 

 quadrate, with a slight tendency to be cordiforra, impunctate, 

 shining, much wider than the head, narrower than the elytra, 

 emarginate, becoming narrower behind ; anterior angles pro- 

 jecting and rounded ; sides gently rounded and margined, the 

 margins extending round the anterior angles, and then gradii- 

 ally becoming wider and disappearing before the middle, the 

 base not margined ; a channel runs along the sides inside the 

 margin, in which six or eight large impressions are placed widely 

 apart ; the base is transversely produced in the middle, as in 

 Lebia ; at the sides it is straight, and the posterior angles are 

 nearly right-angled. Dorsal stria faint and interrupted till to- 

 wards the base, where it becomes deeply impressed ; a very deep 

 fovea on each side of it nearer the sides, with a longitudinal im- 

 punctate groove in the bottom of the fovea. Prosternum with 

 a faint longitudinal depression, impunctate. Scutellum small 

 and impunctate. Elytra elongate, parallel, margined, punctate- 

 striate, the strise deepest towards the apex and margin, the punc- 

 tures in the strise small, and not very close to each other ; the 

 strise are seven in number, and there is no abbreviated stria 

 near the scutellum. Interstices flat and impunctate, except the 

 marginal interstice, which is impressed with a row of large, 

 round, circular depressions, with a point in the centre. The 

 elytra are somewhat flat on the top, except near the sides and 

 apex, where they suddenly and rapidly descend ; the apex is not 

 truncate, but sinuate ; the first and second strise join together 

 at the apex, and the third and fifth or sixth enclose those 

 between them ; under side polished, shining, impunctate, except 

 a row of four or five large punctures on each segment of the 

 abdomen. There are five segments, besides a side-piece in front 

 of them, but the first and second are soldered together, and the 

 separation between them is not to be seen except at the sides, so 

 that on a cursory view there only appear to be four segments. 

 Tibise with spinous hairs on the exterior, strongest on the anterior 

 pair ; posterior and middle tarsi longer than anterior. 



I have dedicated this species to my friend Mr. Adam White, 

 of the British Museum, to whose extensive information and kind 

 assistance I have been on many occasions much indebted. 



2. St. solidum, mihi. 

 Prsecedenti valde affinis sed grandior, latior et convexior ; tho- 



