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



4. Prosopocera Fryi. 



Magna, lata, supra subdepressa ; pube cinereo-fiisca induta; 

 eljtris flavido sparsis ; capite lato, anguste (inter antennas 

 transversim subarcuatim) sulcato, juxta oculos impresso ; 

 oculis maximis, antice depressis, superne fere bifidis, supeme 

 flavido limbatis ; antennis corj)oris vix longitudine ; thorace 

 transverse, longitudine latiore, quater stricto, antice margine 

 flavido, dense setoso, postice bisinuato, sj)ina lateral! brevi 

 acuta ; disco carinis convexis ti'ansversis lenticuliformibus 

 tribus, quarum duabus anticis utrinque et tertia postice medio 

 positis ; eljtris thorace latioribus, ad basin ante humerum 

 arcuatim productis, suboblongis, subdepressis, lateribus de- 

 clivis, humeris tuberculis asperatis, apice rotundatis, ad 

 suturam rectangulatis et ibi denticulatis, flavido irregula- 

 riter transversim adspersis, guttis flavidis prope medium et 

 circa humerum confluentibus : subtus flavido dense vestita, 

 pectore lateribus cinereo et flavido sulcis transversis sub- 

 alternatim indutis ; mesostemo et metastemo omnino fla- 

 vidis ; abdomine medio cinereo, lateribus et segmentonim 

 marginibus plus minusve cinereis, ceteris irregulariter fla- 

 vidis ; pedibus cinereis. 



Long. 13-14 lin., lat. 5 lin. 



A large, broad, wide-fronted, subdepressed species, clothed 

 with a short pile of light cinereous brown, with a slight 

 greenish tint ; the head and thorax, elytra and underside more 

 or less covered with yellowish fawn-colom'ed markings. Head 

 broad, narrowly longitudinally sulcate down the middle, and 

 with a somewhat arcuate, transverse, deeper groove between 

 the antennae ; a depressed margin extends along the inner side 

 of the eyes, which are very large, depressed in front, and 

 almost cut in two near the top by the emargination on 

 which the antenniferous tubercle stands ; above they are mar- 

 gined with yellowish pile. The antenngs are scarcely the 

 length of the body, and are stouter than in the other species 

 of the genus ; the first three articles are cinereous, like the 

 ground-colour of the body, the remainder fawn-colom-ed, like 

 the markings on it. Thorax transverse, broader than long, 

 with four transverse grooves, which extend along to the breast ; 

 that in front is veiy bisinuate, and the two behind at the base 

 are regular and even ; tlie other in the middle spreads out and 

 encloses three lenticular transverse ridges — two before (of which 

 one is on each side of the middle line) and one behind in the 

 middle ; the anterior margin is densely fringed with yellowish 

 pile ; the lateral spine is short, but acute ; the anterior margin 

 is nearly straight, the base gently bisinuate. Scutellum mode- 



