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



event of its proving identical, is perhaps entitled to precedence. 

 Dr. Oscar Schmidt, on inspection of Prof. Wjville Thomson's 

 plates, is inclined to refer it to his genus StelleUaj from the 

 ordinaiy forms of which it differs only by its possession of 

 long depending fascicles of anchoring-spicula, which he re- 

 gards as merely special developments enabling it to adapt it- 

 self to the soft oozy condition of the bottom at the great depths 

 at which it has been taken. 



V. — List of Coleoptera received from Old Calahar^ on the 

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



[Continued from vol. vi. p. 482.] 



Tecton*. 



Broader in front than behind ; clothed with a close 

 pile. Head large, broad, and with a wide space between the 

 antenna, which is not hollowed; slightly prominent on the 

 vertex, inflexed and cut straight, slightly raised from small 

 antenniferous tubercles. Cl}q^eus transverse. Labrum sub- 

 quadi-ate. Eyes almost bifid, large. Antennae starting from 

 the division between the upper and under part of the eyes, 

 nearly of the length of the body, not robust, and nearly of 

 equal thickness, except the first article ; with eleven elongate 

 and subequal articles. Thorax widest in front, of the breadth 

 of the head, constricted near the base, and without any 

 lateral spine ; but a trifling elevation may be distinguished 

 behind the middle. Scutellum large. Elytra subcylindrical, 

 scarcely broader than the thorax, slightly attenuated towards 

 the base. Abdomen with five segments. Legs short ; tibia 

 subtriangular in the middle, moderately emarginate. 



M. Chevrolat regards this genus as the representative in 

 Africa of the American Oncideres. In respect that it is some- 

 what alhed to Prosopocera^ it may be so, for that genus is the 

 true representative of Oncideres ; but I feel much doubt as to 

 the proper place of this genus. It by no means strikes me as 

 so close to Oncideres as M. Chevrolat supposes. 



Tecton quadrisignatiirn^ Chevi'. Eev. et Mag. d. Zool. 

 Zool. 1855, p. 185. PL III. %. Qf. 



Pilo dense ceiwino cinereoque indutum ; lineoiis fusco-nigris 

 duabus in thorace et in elyti-is basi extensis ; capite longi- 

 tudine antice carinato posticeque sulcato ; thorace cum 



* From TfKTcov, a carpenter. t Of vol. vi. of the 'Annals.' 



