128 Mr. A. MuiTay on Culeoptera from Old Calabar. 



parce piloso, marginibus subcupreis ; elytris nigro-viridibus, 

 opacis, punctato-striatis, iuterstitiis puuctatis et gemiuato- 

 pilosis^ iiiaculis duabus flavis, una transversa circa medium 

 posita, altera minore apicali; subtus uiger; pedibus piccis, 

 femoribus tcstaceis, tibiis anterioribus et intermediis iu parte 

 testaceis, tarsis auticis valde dilatatis in maribus. 

 Long. 64 lin., lat. 2\ lin. 



Narrow and elongate ; antennse with the two basal joints fer- 

 ruginous, a piceous patch on the upper side of the first joint, 

 the remainder black" or fuscous, the fourth and following joints 

 pubescent, flattened, and wider at the middle joints than at 

 either end ; palpi piceous. Head smooth, polished, virescent, 

 lightly punctate behind. Thorax narrow, with a tendency to be 

 cylindrical, but margined, narrowed both behind and in front, 

 narrowest behind, widest about the middle ; in front very much 

 rounded-in, and anterior angles fitting close to the neck ; the 

 sides gently rounded, becoming straighter a little before the 

 posterior angles, which are rounded and obtuse; very deeply 

 and closely punctate; the punctuation becomes confluent to- 

 wards the sides, and closest behind ; sparingly pilose ; margin 

 a little raised towards the posterior angles, and having within it 

 a little of a cupreous or eeneous lustre'; dorsal line distinct, 

 reaching neither to front nor base, deepest in front. Scutellum 

 impunctate. Elytra long and narrow, widest behind the middle, 

 opaque, black or bluish-green, the green colour most seen when 

 looked at from in front; punctate-striate, interstices punctate, 

 and bearing a double row of yellowish hairs ; with two yellow 

 spots on each, the anterior broader than long, transverse, occupy- 

 ing the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th interstices, placed about the 

 middle, although from the declivity towards the apex they look 

 as if rather behind the middle ; the posterior spot smaller, and 

 lying close to the emargination of the apex (which is slight), 

 where several strise meet, and only separated from the margin 

 by the marginal space ; neither of the spots reach the three in- 

 terstices next the suture ; slightly margined ; marginal space 

 very narrow, not differing from the other interstices, except iu 

 there not being room for any punctuation at all. Under side 

 black, in certain lights iridescent blue. Prosternuin and breast 

 coarsely punctate. Abdomen polished, a few coarse punctures 

 near the base. Legs piceous ; thighs testaceous, in certain lights 

 bluish iridescent ; anterior and intermediate tibiae partly tes- 

 taceous; the first three joints of the anterior tarsi very much 

 dilated in the males, and furnished with long spongy squamse 

 and very long hairs on each side; 1st joint transversely tri- 

 angular, 2nd and 3rd rounded quadrate, 4th not dilated. 



