328 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
apex of the abdomen is dark. It is doubtless the Old-Calabar 
representative of that Senegalese species. . 
Only one specimen received. 
8. Lycus Bremet, Guér. in Lefebvre, Voy. en Abyss. 
Zool. p. 287. Pl. IX. figs. 10-14. 
Lycus dissimilis, Bertoloni, Ilust. Rer. Nat. Mozamb. 35, pl. 2. fig. 5, and 
Comment. Acad. Bonon. 1849, x. 413. 
9. L. immerso (¢) similis, minor, angustior; thorace magis 
elongato, disco fusco vel nigro; elytris magis_ parallelis, 
humeris vix prominentibus. 
Long. 43 lin., lat. 12 lin. 
@. Like a small female of Lycus tmmersus, and not un- 
like a small specimen of L. sinwatus, only the elytra not so 
rapidly attenuated behind. The thorax, however, is more 
elongate, being somewhat gable-shaped; the posterior angles 
do not project laterally so much, and the dak is piceous or 
black. ‘The antenne have a greater tendency to flabella- 
tion. The scutellum is piceous or black; the elytra narrower, 
without humeral projections, and with a coarser reticulation ; 
the apex more attenuated. 
In a paper by Bertoloni, entitled “ Ilustratio rerum Natu- 
ralium Mozambici,’’ published in 1849 in the Comment. Acad. 
Bonon. x. p. 413, there is a species of Lycus described and 
figured ke the name of L. dissimilis, the female of which 
agrees with the specimen from which I have taken the above 
description ; but on comparing Bertoloni’s figures and descrip- 
tion with Guérin’s of Bremez, which I have here copied (Pl. 1X. 
figs. 12 & 13 from Guérin, and fig. 14 from Bertoloni), it seems 
to me that the two are the same. Guérin’s publication being 
the prior, his name must stand. 
It will be seen, from the above figures, that the form of the 
expansion of the elytra in the male of Guérin’s figure is dif- 
ferent from that of emmersus. 
I have only received one specimen of this; and it being a 
female, and somewhat immature, and the females of the allied 
species of this group being so like each other, I should wish 
the reader to receive my determination of LZ. Bremez as an in- 
habitant of Old Calabar with a point of doubt, and as requiring 
confirmation. 
9. Lycus pyriformis. Pl. IX. fig. 15. 
‘Subpyriformis, niger, thorace et elytris supra flavis; thorace 
medio, scutello et elytris regione scutellari et apice interne 
