176 Mr. X» Murray on Culeuptera from Old Calabar. 



ochreous brown, the elytra ochreous el ay- coloured, with brown 

 markings. Head with a well-marked transversely curved fovea 

 on each side in front. Antennae and parts of the mouth yellowish 

 brown. Thorax with the sides finely margined, widest at the 

 posterior angles, which are nearly right angles and contain a 

 slight rounded prominence, around which on the inner side and 

 along the sides to the anterior angle there is a slight depression ; 

 anterior angles obtuse and equal; the disk smooth, convex. 

 Scutellum triangular, punctate. Elytra closely punctate, the 

 punctures in rows, and with griseous pubescence in rows ; also 

 with a series of longitudinal slight ridges on which the pubes- 

 cence is more prominent ; the sides are subparallel for two- 

 thirds of their length, and with a reflexed margin. The colour 

 of the elytra is dirty ochreous yellow, with dark markings of the 

 colour of the thorax, viz. a spot on the base midway between 

 the scutellum and the outer margin, and touching the shoulder, 

 which is slightly prominent, a spot on the suture immediately 

 behind the apex of the scutellum, another on the outer margin a 

 little before the middle, but this is connected by a narrow neck 

 with a broader marginal band which goes round the rest of the 

 elytra to the apex; from the anterior part of this proceeds a 

 transverse irregular band into the middle of the elytron, in the 

 centre of which one or two ochreous spots are enclosed. The 

 apex of the elytra is pointed, but the point is rounded. A part 

 of the pygidium is exposed ; it is pubescent and punctate, paler 

 than the thorax and darker than the elytra. The underside is 

 of the same colour as the thorax, and more finely punctate than 

 the upper. The abdominal segments have a rather broad, im- 

 punctate, shiny, smooth margin. The legs are stout, and the 

 tibise fold in upon the thighs, but not so much so as in the flatter- 

 legged true Strongyli, Tarsi dilated and broadly ciliated. 

 Only one specimen has come under my notice. 



iETHINA, Er. 



As this genus has never been figured, I give a rough outline 

 of the form of the following species. Indeed, although the genus 

 has been described by Erichson in Germar's ' Zeitschrift,^ vol. iv. 

 p. 306, no species has yet been described. The species from 

 which Erichson took the generic characters was jEthina pubes- 

 cens (Klug, inedit.), which is very closely allied to the preceding, 

 from which it differs in being brown and pubescent above, while 

 the Old Calabar species is black and has no pubescence above. 

 The Old Calabar species, too, is a trifle broader, and more tumid 

 and convex, and has the sides of the elytra rounded in behind, 

 while in ^. pubescens they are more nearly straight to the 

 truncate apex. 



