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



tion ; it is broad, cut vertically in front, and slightly convex, 

 not deeply hollowed between the antennge. Palpi ferruginous. 

 Clypeus broad, straight. Eyes brown, distant, deeply emar- 

 ginate on the upper two thirds. Antennge scarcely longer than 

 the body, brownish, ringed with ash-colour at the base of the 

 articles. Thorax transverse, broad, straight in front and be- 

 hind, but broadly and briefly advanced upon the scutellum, 

 faintly grooved on each side, and very deeply double-grooved 

 across towards the centi-e ; on the edge of the first groove are 

 two round spaces, and a deep spot is situated in the middle, 

 near the second groove ; the lateral spine is almost obtuse. 

 Scutellum yellowish red, not very broad, semirounded. Elytra 

 all along the base, a little beyond on the side, longitudinally 

 from the middle to the apex of each of a yellowish red, trans- 

 versely blackish behind the base, griseous on the middle, with 

 the margin a little ash-coloured ; they are broader than the 

 thorax, obtusely rectangular beyond the shoulder, each nar- 

 rowly rounded at the extremity, and with a rather fine and 

 regular, although distant, punctation. Legs reddish brown, 

 short ; thighs tolerably thick, hollowed only at the extremity 

 (to receive the knees), of the length of the tibiae; intermediate 

 tibiaj obliquely incised at the middle, on the outside ; tarsi 

 moderate, first article conic, second triangular, third naiTowly 

 lobed. Claws simple, rather strong. Breast white, with the 

 posterior half and all the abdomen of a dull black margined 

 with white on the sides of the body and on the posterior mar- 

 gin of the last segments. Sternum narrow, arched longitudi- 

 nally, truncate and adherent in front, truncate but raised 

 behind. 



Only one specimen of this insect has been received, and it 

 is of doubtful sex ; for the abdomen is depressed as in the 

 males, and the antennge are short, as in the females. Its ap- 

 pearance was exceedingly like a squat Oncideres of small size. 

 M. Chevrolat, to whom I gave it, referred it with doubt to the 

 genus Prosopocera. Unfortunately, I have been unable to 

 find it in his collection, now in the British Museum, so am 

 unable to say more as to its generic identity. 



Gelohaepyia, J. Thoms., Lac. 

 Geloliarpyia Murrayi. PI. III. fig. 7*. 

 Sternotomis Murrayi, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 1855, p. 184. 

 Valde aflSnis St. amoence, Westw. Parce punctata, nigro-holo- 

 sericea, maculis duabus anticis lineaque superciliari in ca- 

 pite, lineis tribus longitudinalibus (linea dorsali medio 

 * Of vol. vi. of the 'Annals.' 



