Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 335 



The geographical distribution of this genus is of a more 

 usual character than the last, viz. Africa and the Malayan 

 district. 



Gymnocheila, Erich. 



Gymnocheila squamosa. Gray, Griff. Anim. Kingd. pi. 60. fig. 3. 



(G. vestita, Dej. Cat. p. 339.) 



This species, although figured by Gray in the above work, 

 has, I believe, never been described. I therefore give its de- 

 scription here: — 



Oblonga, modice convexa, nigro-fusca, squamis fuscis et albidis 

 vel ochraceis dense variegata; antennis basi, palpis pedibus- 

 que ferrugineis, feraoribus saturatioribus ; prothorace lateribus 

 dense sat fortiter punctato, medio spatio longitudinali con- 

 fertim et irregulariter punctato, utrinque sublsevi, lateribus 

 parum ampliatis, pone medium latiore, angulis posticis ob- 

 tusis ; elytris punctato-striatis, striis decern ad humeros pauUo 

 deflexis. 



Long. 44-6 lin., lat. l|-2 lin. 



Head rounded, moderately convex, front sloping rapidly 

 downwards, brownish black, clothed with brown scales of dif- 

 ferent degrees of darkness, coarsely punctate, with a longitudinal 

 depression in the middle, and on each side of it, about a third 

 of the distance from the vertex, is a distinct raised papilla, and 

 a little behind, much less distinct, a sort of small oval depres- 

 sion or slight scar as it were, the margins of which are smooth ; 

 behind this, again, and at the inner angle of the eye, is a patch 

 of darker scales looking like a tuft. Eyes moderate. Palpi 

 rufo-ferruginous. Antennae rather short, ferruginous, with the 

 last three articles black, thick, and forming a club. Prothorax 

 not quite twice so broad as long, broadly emarginate in front, 

 the anterior angles very projecting, but rounded at the apex, 

 sides somewhat unevenly and angularly rounded, widest a little 

 behind the middle, posterior angles obtuse, the surface coarsely 

 punctate, except a partially smooth space on each side of the 

 middle, which forms a depressed longitudinal line irregularly 

 and unequally thickly punctate; there are also a number of 

 irregular depressions on the disk, arranged in something like 

 disordered longitudinal rows, three on each side of the middle : 

 it is covered with dull fuscous scales, except at the posterior 

 angles and for about a third of its length in front of these 

 angles, which third is covered with whitish scales, and forms an 

 oblique oblong patch ; the fuscous surface seems darker in the 

 places which are depressed, owing doubtless to the scales being 

 less rubbed off in these depressions. Scutellum short, rounded 



