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often exhibit a certain family resemblance to those of East Africa, which can be ap- 
The affinities with the Cape species are rarer than 
nnexion with Mozambique is a very interesting 
problem, which must wait unriddling until Central Equatorial Africa be explored. It 
preciated, but is difficult to expi 
with those of Mozambiq 
The 
would be very interesting to know whether 
nent 
Goliaths stretch 
species replacing new species until we arrive at Mozambique, or whether 
there is a total gap ; or if we must cast about for other explanations of the 
of G. cacicus on the one side and G. Fomasinii on the other. 
Not 
The East-Indian district has a considerable number of alliances with Old Calabar 
peak of the Pheropsophi, the occurrence of Macrocheili, of Orthogonii, and ; 
number of other Carabidae in both countries is of interest 
number of similar cases. 
but of those merely allied the number is not so great 
The Heteromera furnish 
The Lamellicomes give a certain number of identical species ; 
Some genera of the Longicome-* 
are represented in both countries ; but the affinity is seldom so marked as to prevent a 
tolerably good entomologist allotting the country to which they belong without beiim 
told it. The Curculionidse, as in South America, are nearly unrepresented. 
The relations with Europe are very few, and mostly in cosmopolitan genera, as Be, 
mestes ; and I know of no species identical with a European one. 
I have not met with any species showing relation to a purely Australian genus. 
On the whole, I would sum up the character of the Coleoptera of Old Calabar as 
indicating a distinct fauna, mainly impressed with the West-African character; pos- 
sessing none, or next to none, of the epigeal species either 
ntry, such 
Anthia, epigeal Tenebrionicke, &c. ; havin 
with the South-Afi 
of Africa or any other 
g very little connexion 
fauna, and still less with that of North Africa and Europe, 
and, taking its proximity into account, a surprising want of the species common at no 
great distance in point of latitude along the Gold Coast, but separated from Old 
Calabar by the mighty floods of the Niger ; having considerable affinity with the eastern 
coast of Equatorial Africa, some examples of affinity with the East-Indian district, and 
a few but distinct and most interesting relations with South America. 
EXPLANATION OE PLATE XLVII. 
Fig. 
Species from America. 
Fig. 
Species from Old Calabar 
1. Galerita unicolor, Dej. Spec, gen. des Coleopt. 1 a. Galerita fenioralis y Murr. Ann. Nat. Hist. 
Trinidad. 
2. Lia affinis, Lap. — Brazil. 
2 a. Lia clavicomis, Murr. Ann. Nat. Hist. 
3. Goniotropis castanea, Dej. Spec. gen. des 3 a. Gonxotropis Wylei, Murr. Ann. Nat. Hist. 
Coleopt. — New Granada. 
4. Stenochia violacea, Fab. Syst. Eleuth. — Brazil. 4 a. Stenochia longipennis, n. sp 
5 a. Belionota Championi, n. sp. 
6 a. Lampetis piperata, n. sp. 
5. Actenodes chalibeitar&is, Chev. — Mexico. 
6. Psiloptera equestris, Oliv. — Brazil. 
7. Parandra brunnea, Fab. Syst. Eleuth. — North 7 a - Parandra beninensis, n. sp. 
America. 
8. Polyoza Lacordairei, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 
VOL. XXIII. 
8 a. Dorycera spinicornis, Fab. Syst. Eleuth. 
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