Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 101 



towards the suture, and gradually diminishing as they ap- 

 proach the apexj which is subemarginate, with the external 

 angles rounded and the sutural angles turned outwards and 

 feebly mucronate. Below more uniform in tint ; the meso- 

 sternum and metasternum pilose ; the abdomen with the mar- 

 gins of its segments subdenticulate at the external angle. In 

 the female the pencilled margin of hairs on the free margin of 

 the last segment of the abdomen is composed of singularly 

 shaped hairs, somcAvhat club-shaped, or like an irregular knob 

 on a thin stalk — cherries on a stalk, in fact, only the cherries 

 are not round. 



The African species to which this comes nearest is A. sene- 

 galensis ; but it differs in the prothorax not having a broad 

 longitudinal median canal, in there not being a tubercle on it 

 in front of the median lobe, in the sides being sinuate instead 

 of rounded, in the elytra not being tubercular at their base, in 

 their apex not being bidentate, and in their third interval not 

 being more raised than the others. It has more resemblance, 

 however, to some of the Malayan species. 



Only one specimen (a female) received. 



Lacon, Lap. 



hojcon sordiduSj Cand. Elat. i. p. 114. 



Of this species I have one specimen, given to me by Mr. 

 Fry, who had acquired it from Mr. Gray, of Glasgow, with 

 the locality marked as Old Calabar. Mr. Gray was in rela- 

 tions with my friends. the missionaries, and I have no doubt 

 that his locality is to be depended on. The only habitat given 

 by Cand^ze for the species is Senegal. 



My specimen is probably immature, being chestnut-coloured 

 instead of black. It may be worth mentioning, as a character 

 not noticed by Cand^ze, that the scales on the elytra are dis- 

 posed in pairs on the intervals between the striae, and are 

 arranged obliquely, pointing backwards towards each other, 

 so that it gives them the appearance of a plaited flat rope. 



DiLOBOTAESUS, Latr., Cand. 



Dilohotarsus cornutus, Cand. Elat. Nouv. p. 8 (1864). 



Castaneus, elytrorum apice ochraceo, pilis albidis et ochraceis 

 hie et illic sparsim irroratus, lineari-elongatus, angustus, 

 subcylindricus ; fronte excavata, luteo-squamulosa ; protho- 

 race insequali, antice latiore, lateribu^ sinuatis, apud mar- 

 ginem anticum tuberculis duobus, transversim granulose 

 multistriolato ; elytris anguste linearibus, granulose crebre 



