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Gouldia melanosternon. 



Crown of the head, neck, and breast glittering yellowish green, 

 the feathers of the lower part of the neck very obscurely 

 edged with coppery brown ; chest jet-black, on each side of 

 which the feathers are light brownish grey, separating the 

 black of the chest from the green of the flanks ; under tail- 

 coverts brown and grey ; back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts bronzy green, interrupted by a band of white across 

 the rump ; tail long and deeply forked, the feathers almost 

 filamentous, the outer one on each side grey, the remainder 

 steel-blue with white shafts ; bill and wings black. 

 Total length 4|- inches, bill f , wing IfVj outer tail-feathers 2f . 

 Hah. Peru. 



Remark. — Very closely allied to Gouldia Langsdorffi^ but 

 differs in being a trifle smaller, and in the almost total absence 

 of the band across the chest, which forms a conspicuous and 

 beautiful feature in that bird. I have numerous examples of 

 both sexes of this new species now before me, among which 

 are three males, one from the Napo, another from Pebas, and 

 a third from, I believe, the neighbourhood of Ucayali (Bartlett, 

 No. 1619). The habitat of G. Langsdorffi is, as every one 

 knows, the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. 



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

 West Coast of Africa. By Andrew Murray, F.L.S. 



[Continued from ser. 3. vol. xx. p. 323.] 



[Plate IX.] 



Lycidae. 



Lycus, Fab. 



§ 1. Males with elytra expanded, and shoulders prominent but not spined. 

 Females comparatively narrow. 



1. Lycus foliaceus^ Schon. Syn. Ins, iv. App. p. 26, pi. 5. f.4, 3" . 

 PI. IX. fig. 1. 



Lycus oblitus, Dej. Cat. 110, c?. 



There are three types of the male of one of the forms of this 

 section of Lycidaj, which I separate with hesitation and doubt, 

 the more so that I have been unable to find corresponding- 

 females for them. Still there are sufiicient differences to 

 warrant their being recorded as distinct varieties ; and those 

 who do not think the differences specific will suffer little incon- 

 venience in having to rank them merely as known and marked 

 varieties. 



