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Fig. 6. Spicula singula. 



Fig. 7. Stipitis sectio longitudinalis cum parenchymate. 



Fig, 8. Stipitis pars, sublato strato dermali. 



Figs. 9-11. Spicula fusiformia, simplicia. 



Fig. 12. Apex spiculi. 



Fig. 13. Sectio ejusdem. 



Fig. 14. Spiculi pars media, ramis inchoatis canalem excipientibus. 



Figs. 15-26. Spiculorum formae secundarise. 



Fig. 27. Spiculum minutum simplicissimum, rarum. 



Figs. 28-30. Spicula fracta, canali aere repleto. 



Figs. 31, 32. Sectiones longitudinales corporis. 



Fig. 33. Finis stipitis in eodem, cum fasciculis spiculorum radiantibus. 



Fig. 34. Ramuli ultimi fasciculi. 



Fig. 35. Spiculum strati dermalis corporis. 



F^g. 36. Parenchyma corporis. 



Fig. 37. Radicis pars. 



Fig. 38. Spongolithes in parenchymate radicis exceptus. 



IX. — List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar^ on the 

 West Coast of Africa. By Andrew Murray, F.L.S. 



[Continued from vol. i. p. 333.] 



[Plate VIII.] 



LycidaB {continued). 



Metriorhynchus, Gu^rin-M^nev. 



1. Metriorhynchus sulcicollis. 

 Lycus sulcicollis, Thoms. Arch. Ent. ii. p. 78. 



I have received two species which, I believe, respectively 

 belong to Mr. James Thomson's Lycus sulcicollis and Lycus 

 semiflabellatus. His description of the former is as follows : — 



" Prothorax of a brownish black, with yellow sides ; elytra 

 yellow, with the posterior fourth black ; underside black ; base 

 of the thighs yellow. 



'' Very elongated, almost parallel in the male. Female with 

 the antennae very broad, almost pectinated. Prothorax with 

 the anterior margin very projecting in the middle ; sides lightly 

 sinuated, posterior angles sharp ; base strongly bisinuated, in 

 the middle a very deep channel, changing into a ridge in front. 

 Elytra each with four strong ridges, the intervals regularly 

 reticulated. 



" Length 7 to 11 millims., breadth 2\ to 4 millims." 



With all this my specimens agree ; but they have also one 

 or two other striking characters, w^hich one would have ex- 

 pected to be mentioned if they were present. The black an- 



