44 — Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
IlI.—List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the 
West Coast of Africa. By ANDREW Murray, F.L.S. 
[Continued from vol. v. p. 438.] 
[Plates II. and IIL] 
Pacuypissus, Newm. 
1. Pachydissus femorellus, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 
1856, p. 340. 
angule subrotundatis, ad apicem oblique truncatis; spina 
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onoitndine 
[o] 
Brownish black, covered with a short, ashy-grey, velvety 
pubescence, except on the head, thorax, and tarsi, where it is 
replaced by silky, irregularly interrupted, brownish golden 
hairs. Head strong, deeply channelled above. Eyes very 
projecting, making the head at its widest nearly as broad as 
the widest part of the thorax, coarsely granulated, strongly 
emarginate above, and almost touching each other; a golden 
brownish-yellow pubescence both in front of and above the eyes 
and on the front of the head. Labrum piceous. Palpi an 
mandibles black. Antenne in the males about a fourth or 
a fifth longer than the body, in the females very little longer ; 
with the first article thick, punctate, pitted, with a shallow 
channel on the upperside, blackish, the remaining articles 
elongated, and those from the fifth to the tenth inclusive some- 
what angulated at the apex. Thorax rounded, constricted in 
front and behind, covered with large, short, transverse folds, — 
which are interrupted by oblique channels, producing a sort 
of coronet-shaped space a little before the base on the posterior 
part of the disk, which is black and free from pubescence, as 
is a narrower dorsal middle space continuing on to the front of 
the thorax ; the yellowish-golden pile occurs in patches on the 
rest of the thorax—one at the base in front of the scutellum, 
one on each side a little behind the middle, and one on each 
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