94 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
eature are both a little raised. Underside piceo-ferruginous, 
pubescent. Legs piceo-testaceous. 
One specimen only. 
2. Sinoxylon fumatum. 
Antice testaceo-ferrugineum, postice gradatim piceum, parum 
pubescens ; thorace postice levi; elytris irregulariter punc- 
tatis, fortius versus apicem, apice oblique declivo, singulis 
duobus minutis tuberculis instructis. 
Long. 23-3 lin., lat. 1-14 lin. 
Testaceo-ferruginous until past the middle of the elytra, when 
the colour becomes gradually darker, until at the apex it is 
piceous. The head and thoracic truncature are rather darker 
than the rest of the thorax. Head finely granulose, with a 
transverse curved depression or line behind the epistome. Man- 
dibles piceous. Thorax broader than long, with the truncature 
covered with dentiform tubercles pointing backwards; the pos- 
terior part of the thorax smooth, shining, slightly pubescent, 
and with traces of very fine tubercles next the tubercular anterior 
part. Scutellum subquadrate, raised. Elytra very cylindrical, 
irregularly punctate, faintly at the base, and gradually more 
coarsely towards the apex, thinlyclothed with fine woolly hairs; the 
apical truncature very slightly oblique, being very nearly vertical, 
as if the body had been cut through; the truncature is well. 
defined, slightly sloping inwards to the suture, which is distinctly 
raised, as well as the margin of the truncature, all round, except 
at its top; a little within it, near the upper margin, are on each 
elytron two scarcely perceptible tubercles in the relative position 
which would have been occupied by the termination of the two 
inner cost usually met with in other species. Underside finely 
pubescent. : 
There is an undescribed species from Port Philip which is very 
like this; but it is narrower and has no tubercles at all on the. 
apical truncature.: In it the elytra are more coarsely punctate, 
particularly toward the base; the thorax (except the truncature) 
is shining and very finely and sparingly punctured ; the piceous 
termination to the elytra is less decided, and the reddish colour 
brighter. I would call it S. rufescens. : 
Two specimens received. 
3. Sinoxylon nitidipenne. 
Atrum, interdum plus minusve piceum vel piceo-ferrugineum ; 
elytris nitidis, leviter punctatis, truncatura apicali superiore 
margine rotundato sex-dentata ; subtus castaneo pubescens. 
Long. 24 lin., lat. 1 lin. 
Black, sangha more or less, both in place and degree, to 
