Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 319 
A number of specimens have been received. They vary a good 
deal in intensity of colour and degree of denudation of pubes- 
cence. 
Erymantuvs, Klug. 
Erymanthus horridus, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 35. 
Erymanthus vesuvioides, Thomson, in Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1856, p. 114. 
Var. purpureo-niger. 
Three specimens. 
Prof. Westwood describes and figures his species as shining 
black, with rufo-piceous protuberances. M.Thomson’s speci- 
mens of E. vesuvioides are described and figured as varying in 
colour, the ground-colour being ferrugineo-testaceous encroached 
upon by brown and black. My specimens are all three of a rich 
shining dark tawny claret-colour, almost black, with rufo-piceous 
or tawny brown shining through on the tops of the tubercles. 
With the exception of the differences in colour, [ see no distinc- 
tion between my specimens and the descriptions and figures of 
these species respectively given by Westwood and Thomson. 
They all come from West Africa:—Prof. Westwood’s from Cape 
Palmas; M. Thomson’s from Grand Bassam; and mine from. 
Creek Town, Old Calabar. 
THANASIMODES, noy. gen. (See fig. 2, p. 320.) 
Elongatus; palparum maxillarium ultimo articulo securiformi. 
Prothorace subquadrato, angulis rotundatis ; elytris longis ; 
femoribus posterioribus haud apicem elytrorum attingentibus; 
ceteris fere ut in Thanasimo. 
Elongate, subcylindrical, shining and metallic. Mentum 
transverse, narrow. Ligula bilobed, the lobes diverging. Last 
article of the labial palpi very large, transversely securiform ; 
that of the maxillary palpi also securiform, but not half so broad. 
Labrum emarginate. Head declined, ovular. Eyes rather large, 
nearly on a level with the rest of the surface ofthe head in 
front, but projecting a good deal behind, the head being nar- 
rower behind them; rather strongly emarginate on the under- 
side, distinctly but not coarsely granulated. Antenne longer than 
the head and thorax, rather slender, of eleven articles, the first 
conical and bent, second to eighth flattened subcylindrical, second 
moderately long, third longer than the second, fourth about the 
length of the second, fourth to eighth gradually but very slightly 
increasing respectively in length and thickness; the ninth to 
eleventh triangular and a little thicker than the preceding, 
forming a loose slender club; the eleventh largest, unequally 
ovate, and acuminate. Prothorax subquadrate, convex, with 
the sides subparallel and the angles rounded, constricted at the 
