50 Mr, A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
5. Callichroma ias red ky Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 
1855, p 
Viridi - auratum ; sate longi et thorace (latitudine) 
plicatis ; scutello ue (obscure rugose punctatis) 
vittis duabus obliqui viridia thorace infra, pectore 
abdomineque virentibus, albido-sericeis. 
Long. 74 lin., lat. 14 lin. 
Of the size a form of C. vittatum, Fab., and of a brilliant 
golden green. Head punctate, raised etween the antennze, 
long citudinally grooved and plicate, with eurved wrinkles behind. 
Palpi short; maxillary obscure, labial red. Mandibles d 
wrinkled, green, black at the apex. Eyes black. Ante 
red, with the first article obscure. Thorax as long as ed 
of a beautiful golden green, with very regular transverse folds, 
which are curved behi e middle; smooth and irre larly 
unctate below the sides’ depressed strongly plicate, ps con- 
stricted near the inferior margin ont; median angles ob- 
tuse; in the middle of the back is a loaptudinal line marked 
by a ’ depression. Scutellum triangular, moderate, golden, and 
punctate. Elytra obscure, rugosely punctate, each with a 
coppery line which proceeds from the exterior of the stttidier 
and goes to the taii of the suture. Underside of the 
6. Callichroma puc iind 2.458 Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 
1856 
Planiuseulum, nigrum ; ag dba vel ceruleo-viridi ; 
antennis carinatis pedibusque clavatis nigro-cyaneis ; tibiis 
quatuor anticis tarsisque totis cinereis; thorace viridi, elon- 
gato, transversim rugato, ateribus posticis spinoso ; elytris 
opacis, rugose punctatis, nigro-cyan aneis, vitta lata communi 
postice attenuata et abbreviata virescente ; corpore infra 
ridi, tee ih alba induto. 
Long. g lin., 
Flattened; narrow, od attenuated behind. Head of a fine 
violet or bluish green, abruptly truncate and raised between 
the antennz, punctured in front, longitudinal channel aries 
Maudibles, palpi, labrum, clypeus, and eyes black. Antenn 
slender, angular, flattened, grooved longitudinally, bluish black, 
velvety ; first article club-shaped, strongly and rugosel punc- 
tate, with a ee or claw at the apex ; second very small; third 
very r long, s uddenly in and ofa shining black at the apex ; 
Ur TET ae A a DUE ERR TENERE 
