Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar, 339 



2. Hectarthrum curtipes, Newm. Eut. Mag. v. 398, and Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. ii. 392. 



This is the species which may be confounded with H, gigas ; 

 but on the whole, I incline to think with Mr. Newman that it 

 differs from it. It is always small and narrower in proportion. 

 The markings and sculpture, however, cannot be distinguished. 



3. Hectarthrum quadrilineatum, Smith, Brit. Mus. Cat. of 

 Cucujidse, p. 22. 



Mr. Frederick Smith, of the British Museum, described this 

 species from a specimen from Natal. The type is in the British 

 Museum, and is a female. The species varies a good deal in 

 size. I have a specimen only 3J lines in length, and another 

 upwards of 6 lines. The strise on the elytra, when examined 

 closely, show a series of faint punctures in the lines. 



Several specimens received. 



" Black, with two deep channels on the head originating at 

 the basal angles of the clypeus, running upwards, meeting a 

 little before the vertex ; thence passing off at right angles, they 

 continue, reaching the inner margins of the eyes, where, becoming 

 narrower, they traverse the inner margins, and curve round, 

 meeting the origin of the deep sulcation ; the clypeus has a deep 

 fossulet in the centre, the lateral margins of which are raised ; 

 and there is a sharp carina down the face, terminating in this 

 deep fossulet. The thorax is one-third longer than broad. Each 

 elytron has four strise independent of the usual marginal stria, 

 the sutural stria uniting with the marginal one ; a second stria 

 runs parallel to the sutural one, but becomes obsolete a little 

 before the apex : a second pair of strise run down the middle of 

 the elytra, the inner one commencing a little below the shoulder; 

 the outer stria commences at the humeral angle, and both be- 

 come obsolete a little before the apex. The femora are red, the 

 tibiae and tarsi rufo- piceous. Long. 5 lin.^' 



4. Hectarthrum Smithii. 



H. quadrilineaio similis ; dignoscitur thorace medio versus basin 



duabus striis parum obliquis brevibus instructo. 

 Long. 3^ lin., lat. J lin. 



Like the smaller specimens of H. quadrilineatum ; narrower; 

 the head sculptured nearly as in it ; but the central keel in front, 

 which in it runs down the middle fossulet on the clypeus, is 

 almost effaced. The thorax nearly as in it; but, besides the 

 two faint lateral oblique lines, there are two deep, short, dorsal, 

 slightly oblique lines near the base ; they extend forwards about 

 half the length of the thorax, and do not reach the base ; they 



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