450 MR. A. MURRAY ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF 
to be drawn is, that there is a little overflowing, on the one hand, from America into 
Asia, and a somewhat greater overflowing, on the other, into Africa. 
The Pheropsophi, or larger Brachmi, furnish an instance the converse of what we 
see in Galerita. Their metropolis is in tropical Asia and West Africa ; but a few and 
rare New-World species are found in Eastern South America. Three or four species 
only are to be found in America, to balance the fifteen or sixteen of Africa. 
I do not take into account the genera Calleida and lebia, which, as at present con- 
stituted, are to be found all over the world. But there is one genus or subgenus of 
the family established by Eschscholtz, viz. Ida, confined to South America, of a peculiar 
facies, very smooth, very convex, and of a pale colour, which has a congener in Old Cala- 
bar, so like in form and general appearance, though of a finer colour (being, when alive, 
of a lovely delicate flesh-colour), that no one can doubt its affinity, although some of the 
characters given for Ida are not exactly found in it. This is a very marked instance of 
a purely American form, found nowhere else on the face of the globe (so far as we yet 
know), reappearing on the West Coast of Africa. The reader will find a South- American 
species Ha affinis contrasted with my Ha clavicomis in PL XLVII. figs. 2 and 2 a. 
Another, similar instance occurs in the genus Goniotropis. The whole of the species 
of that genus are American, with the exception of three African, of which one is a new 
species, described by me, from Old Calabar. The other two are not recognizable from 
the descriptions (Brulle's and Hope's), and may or may not really belong to the genus; 
but there is no doubt as to my Old Calabar species being as close as can well be to 
G. castanea of New Granada. Compare figs. 3 and 3 a of PL XLVII., being respectively 
Goniotropis castanea and my G. Wylei. Lacordaire erroneously unites with this genus 
Pseudozama orientalis of Klug, and equally erroneously, as I think, keeps distinct from 
it Solier's genus Tropopsis from Chili. 
Dejean's genus Sypolithus , notwithstanding the difficulty of finding appreciable 
characters to distinguish it from Harpalus, has a sufficiently marked facies to make it 
readily recognized by the eye, the upper surface having a peculiar granulated texture. 
West Africa and South America are the sole countries where they have been found. 
Old Calabar produces two species. 
America possesses a peculiar form of Orectochilus (of which the most readily seizable 
character is the want of a scutellum) ; no species of this has hitherto been found out of 
America. Old Calabar has now produced one. 
In the Histeridse, a peculiar rounded form distinguishes the genus Omalodes. No 
species exactly of that genus has been found elsewhere ; but species of an allied genus, 
Contipus, forming the transition between it and the ordinary form of Sister, have been 
found in Yucatan, Senegal, and Old Calabar. 
In the Nitidulidae, two species of the American form Prometopia have been found 
m Ainca ; and the genus Platychora is represented by Thomson's Pherocopis, species 
of which have been found on both sides of the continent. lobiopa senegalensis is scarcely 
distinguishable from the South -American I. contammata. 
Among the Trogositidse, species of Alindria are found in both countr 
In the Buprestidse I may specially refer to the genera Actenodes and Belionota as of 
