Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 85 
If a number of Brazilian and African specimens were mixed 
together, I think it would be impossible to assign them all cor- 
rectly to their different countries, although probably the majority 
might be successfully guessed at. 
Not rare in Old Calabar. 
The same species also extends to Natal. 
2. Apate muricata, Fab. Syst. El. 
Nigra; capite plano, epistomate parum fulvo piloso 
antice; thorace utrinque antice dentibus parum 
uncinatis instructo; elytris profunde reticulatis, 
nitidissimis. 
Long. 14 lin., lat. 44 lin. 
This is a large, handsome insect (the finest of the 
family), cylindrical, black, with the elytra strongly 
impressed with deep coarse reticulations, and the oT 
raised parts glittering and shining. Head punctate aasieaioty, 
almost impunctate in front, leaving smooth shining spaces 
about the middle and on each side, with a longitudinal line 
down the middle, somewhat more deeply impressed at a point 
im the centre, free from hair or pubescence, but covered on 
the sides and partially on the front with round, small tuber- 
cles. Epistome with a projecting point in the middle and a 
fringe of yellow pile. Labrum emarginate, almost bilobed, 
the margin of the lobes fringed with yellow pile; palpi 
and club of the antenne piceous, Thorax widest in front, 
Opaque, except behind, divided as it were transversely into 
two parts; the anterior part broad and large, and covered 
with denticulations, which at the anterior angles become de- 
veloped into hooks, the denticulations being triangular projecting 
teeth near the anterior angles, on the sides and front flattened 
triangular spaces slightly elevated; the posterior half finely 
aciculate or subtuberculate, the tubercles here being a modifica- 
tion of the same triangular denticulations, only much finer and 
more closely adpressed and flattened, in the centre towards the 
base almost smooth; a slight central longitudinal line runs 
forward from the middle of the base ; there is an indentation on 
each side of the middle of the base, making the centre into a 
lobe; the posterior angles are rounded eminences, with two 
somewhat. transverse impressions on the sides. Scutellum 
rounded, opaque, lying in a hollow. Elytra parallel, cylin- 
drical, deeply and broadly reticulated, with the elevated spaces 
_ very bright ; there is a longitudinal hollow for about a line and 
a half behind the scutellum ; the base is straight, the shoulders 
rather prominent and nearly smooth; the apical truncature 
is hollowed out, and the excavated space shining and nearly 
