Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 175 



There are two species known in South America which com- 

 pose the typical subgenus — Platychora polita and P. Lebasii, 



And two from Africa, viz. P. deplanata, Boh., from Natal, and 

 the following species. These compose the subgenus Pherocopis. 



P. ehena, Thoms. Arch. Ent. ii. 42. 

 Three or four specimens have been received. 



LORDITES, Er. 



The genus Lordites has never been figured, and I therefore 

 give an outline of the species described below. Only two 

 species have been described by Erichson in Germar's *Zeit- 

 schrift,' iv., and six by Boheman, under the generic name So- 

 ronia, in his ^ Insecta Caffraria.' Erichson^s two are Lordites 

 procerus^ which is the Lasiodactylus brunneus of Perty (a rare 

 large Brazilian species of a different facies and belonging to a 

 different genus from the remaining Lordites), and the other 

 Lordites inquinatus, described from a specimen whose country is 

 unknown. The best-known species is yet undescribed: it is 

 from the Malayan region, and stands in French cabinets under 

 the name Nitidula maculipes. It is, however, the Silpha limbata 

 of Fabricius — at least stands under that name in the Fabriciau 

 collection. 



The geographical distribution of the genus is — 



Six from South Africa (generally long and narrow; those 

 described by Boheman). 



Two from Madagascar (coming nearest to the South-African 

 species). 



One or two from Mauritius. 



One from Old Calabar (described below). 



One from Senegambia (exceedingly like the Indian species). 



One, or perhaps two, from the East Indies and Philippine 

 Islands. 



Five or six from the Celebes and New Guinea group of islands. 



Lordites drcumjlexus. 



Magnus, ovatus, brunneus, subopacus, crebre 



punctatus, griseo pubescens; elytris luride 



ochraceis, singulis maculis brunneis, una 



basali utrinque prope scutellum, altera su- 



turali pone scutellum, tertia latcrali ante 



medium, medio fascia vel macula irregulari, 



et pone medium brunneo circumtlexis ; 



pygidio testaceo, punctato. 

 Long. 4 lin., lat. 2\\\n. 



Large, ovate, thickly punctate, griseo-pubesccut, subopaque. 



