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. Wyville Thomson's 

 plates, is inclined to refer it to his genus Stelletta^ from the 

 ordinary 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 tlie bottom at the great depths 

 at which it has been taken. 



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

 West Coast of Africa. By Andrew Murray, 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 

 antennje, which is not hollowed; slightly prominent on the 

 vertex, inflexed and cut straight, slightly raised from small 

 antcnniferous tubercles. Clypeus transverse. Labrum sub- 

 quadrate. Eyes almost bifid, large. Antennse 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 allied to Proso])ocera, 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 

 60 close to Oncideres as M. Chevrolat supposes. 



Tecton quadrisignatum^ Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 

 Zool. 1855, p. 185.- PI. III. fig. 9t. 



Pilo dense cervino cinereoque indutum ; lineolis fusco-nigris 

 duabus in thorace et in elytris basi extensis ; capite longi- 

 tudine antice carinato posticeque sulcato ; thorace cum 



* From reKTuv, a carpmter. \ Of vol. vi. of the 'Annals.' 



