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Gouldia melanosternon. 
Crown of the head, neck, and breast glittering yellowish green, 
the feathers of the lower part of the neck very obscurely 
edged with coppery brown; chest jet-black, on each side of 
which the feathers are light brownish grey, separating the 
black of the chest from the green of the flanks ; under tail- 
coverts brown and grey; back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts bronzy green, interrupted by a band of white across ~ 
the rump; tail long and deeply forked, the feathers almost 
filamentous, the outer one on each side grey, the remainder 
steel-blue with white shafts ; bill and wings black. 
Total length 4 inches, bill 2, wing 1;%, outer tail-feathers 23. 
Hab. Peru. 
Remark.—Very closely allied to Gouldia Langsdorfi, but 
differs in being a trifle smaller, and in the almost total absence 
of the band across the chest, which forms a conspicuous and 
beautiful feature in that bird. I have numerous examples of 
both sexes of this new species now before me, among which 
are three males, one from the Napo, another from Pebas, and 
a third from, I believe, the neighbourhood of Ucayali (Bartlett, 
No. 1619). The habitat of G. Langsdorffi is, as every one 
knows, the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. 
XLI—List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the 
West Coast of Africa. By ANDREW Murray, F.L.S. 
[Continued from ser. 3. vol. xx. p. 323. ] 
[Plate IX. } 
Lycide. 
Lycus, Fab. 
§ 1. Males with elytra expanded, and shoulders prominent but not spined. 
Females comparatively narrow. 
1. Lycus foliaceus, Schén. Syn. Ins. iv. App. p. 26, pl. 5. f.4, 3. 
sw PLS IX, Se. 1. 
Lycus oblitus, De}. Cat. 110, ¢. 
_ There are three types of the male of one of the forms of this 
section of Lycidz, which I separate with hesitation and doubt, 
the more so that I have been unable to find corresponding 
females for them. Still there are sufficient differences to 
warrant their being recorded as distinct varieties; and those 
who do not think the differences specific will suffer little incon- 
venience in having to rank them merely as known and marked 
varieties. 
