46 . Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar, 
middle of the elytra near the dilatation; the margin at that 
ps is also obscure. Abdomen of an obscure silky grey, of 
ve segments, which are nearly equal, but which diminish in 
size towards the extremity. 
This was not among the species which came to me from Old 
Calabar; it was procured by Mr. Hislop, and by him commu- 
nicated to M, Chevrolat, in whose collection (now in the British 
Museum) it now is, 
ALLOGASTER, Thomson. 
Allogaster annulipes. Pl, III. fig, 2. 
Corethrogaster annulipes, Chey, Rev, et Mag. Zool. (1855) p. 183, 
Cinnamomeus; capite rotundato, anguste sulcato, genis 
ate nigris; antennis flavis, palpis rufis ; thorace in dorso 
septemtuberculato, lateribus obtuse unidentato; elytris 
acupunctatis, duabus lineolis obsoletis costiformibus, postice 
rotundatis et parce fulvo setosis (fcemina). 
Long. 11 lin., lat. 4 lin. | 
Pale cinnamon-coloured, with the apex of the thighs black. 
The figure given in Plate III. renders it unnecessary to say 
more by way of description. : 
are. In the British Museum and my collection. 
An African form, the only other species being from Sene- 
gambia, 
DIASTELLOPTERUS, Thoms. 
JDiastellopterus clavatus. 
Paristemia clavata, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. (1855) p. 513, 
Alatus, crebre punctatus, luteo-fuscus ; oculis, antennis (primo 
articulo fulvo, tertio dilatato), pedibus, pectore abdomineque 
nigris; elytris costulis octo. 
Long. 63-7 lin., lat. 3 mill. 
Only one example. The species ranges from Old Calabar 
to Gaboon. 
PARISTEMIA, Westw. 
Paristemia apicalis, Westw. Arcana Ent. ii, p. 57, 
pl. 64. fig. 2 9 , var. costata. 
The Old-Calabar partners are a little broader and stouter, 
and the lateral tubercle on the thorax stouter and straighter, 
than those from Sierra Leone. The tubercle in the Sierra- 
Leone specimens which I have seen has a very slight tendency 
to look backwards, which is not the case in the Old-Calabar in- 
dividuals. At first I distributed specimens under the name of P, 
costata, which has led Prof. Lacordaire (Gen. Col, ix. p. 162) 
