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



apex of the abdomen is dark. It is doubtless the Old-Calabar 

 representative of that Senegalese species. 

 Only one specimen received. 



8. Lycus Bremei, Gu6-. in Lefebvre, Voy. en Abyss. 

 Zool. p. 287. PI. IX. figs. 10-14. 



Lycus dissiinilis, Bertoloni, Illuat. Rer. Nat. Mozamb. 35, pi. 2. fig. 5, and 

 Comment. Acad. Bonon. 1849, x. 413. 



? . L. immerso ( ? ) similis, minor, angustior ; thorace magis 



elongato, disco fusco vel nigro ; elytris magis parallelis, 



humeris vix prominentibus. 

 Long. 4| lin., lat. If lin. 



$ . Like a small female of Lycus immersus, and not un- 

 like a small specimen of L. smuatus, only the elytra not so 

 rapidly attenuated behind. The thorax, however, is more 

 elongate, being somewhat gable-shaped ; the posterior angles 

 do not project laterally so much, and the disk is piceous or 

 black. The antennae have a greater tendency to flabella- 

 tion. The scutellum is piceous or black ; the elytra narrower, 

 without humeral projections, and with a coarser reticulation ; 

 the apex more attenuated. 



In a paper by Bertoloni, entitled " Illustratio rerum Natu- 

 ralium Mozambici," published in 1849 in the Comment. Acad. 

 Bonon. x. p. 413, there is a species of Lycus described and 

 figured under the name of L. dissimilts, the female of which 

 agrees with the specimen from which I have taken the above 

 description ; but on comparing Bertoloni's figures and descrip- 

 tion with Guerin's oiBreinei, which I have here copied (PI. IX. 

 figs. 12 & 13 from Guerin, and fig. 14 from Bertoloni), it seems 

 to me that the two are the same. Guerin's publication being 

 the prior, his name must stand. 



It will be seen, from the above figures, that the form of the 

 expansion of the elytra in the male of Guerin's figure is dif- 

 ferent from that of immersus. 



I have only received one specimen of this ; and it being a 

 female, and somewhat immature, and the females of the allied 

 species of this group being so like each other, I should wish 

 the reader to receive my determination of L. Bremei as an in- 

 habitant of Old Calabar with a point of doubt, and as requiring 

 confirmation. 



9. Lycus pyriformis. PI. IX. fig. 15. 



Subpyriformis, niger, thorace et elytris supra flavis ; thorace 

 medio, scutello et elytris regione scutellari et apice interne 



