Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 329° 
_ sinuatim nigris, his rugoso reticulatis, quadricostatis, costa 
humerali parum elevata, lateribus parum reflexis. 
Long. 5-6 lin., lat. 4 lin. 
_ Subpyriform in outline, black; antenne rather stout and 
with the articles rather short. The thorax is rounded in front, 
with a black longitudinal band (widest behind) up the middle; 
the scutellum black. The elytra flat, except at the shoulders ; 
the scutellar region black; the shoulders slightly raised into a 
narrow sharp ridge, up to which the black comes, but does not 
touch it; there is a broad black band along the apex and pos- 
terior half of the elytra; the margins are sharply reflexed; 
there are four costz, which are most Auahisimioed at the base, 
almost disappearing at the apex. Abdomen black, with the 
sides broadly yellow. ‘The pyriform outline, the thorax 
nearly soahded in front, the lita flat, the scutellar space 
black, and the margins of the elytra reflexed are the most im- 
portant characters of this species. 
_T have received specimens of this from the Cape, under the 
name of L. rostratus, Fab. If, however, the Lycus rostratus 
of Fabricius is the same as the Lycus rostratus of Linneus 
(which I presume it is), then my specimens have been incor- 
rectly named; for they are certainly distinct from the figure 
and description of L. rostratus of Linneus (Lampyris rostrata 
Linnzi) given by Wulfen, in 1786, in his * Descriptiones 
_ quorumdam Capensium Insectorum,’ of which fig. 16 is a copy. 
The truth seems to be that the name has been bandied about, 
by the earlier authors, among any of the African species which 
had the scutellar region black, There are not many of them. 
Schénherr supposes dentipes to be the female of it, in which I 
do not agree. The texture is different, that of dentipes being 
somewhat shining, that of the present species dull and pubes- 
cent. 
| 10. Lycus ustus. Pl. IX. fig. 17. 
Niger, thorace lateribus et elytris, exceptis regione scutellari 
et marginibus exterioribus posticis, flavis. 
Long. 6 lin., lat. 3 lin. 
Rather narrow, black below, above orange-yellow, with a 
broad stripe down the middle of the thorax, the scutellum, 
the scutellar region, and the exterior margin of the posterior 
half of the elytra black; not so peaked behind as L. stnuatus, 
nor so pubescent. 
Not unlike L. pyriformis; but, besides differing in shape 
and colouring, the elytra are not so flat, and have not the 
margins reflexed. 
One specimen ; probably a female. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4, Vol. is 24 
