54 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
Head narrow, prolonged in front, of a brilliant glabrous golden 
copper-colour, sparsely punctate ; it is keeled and grooved on 
its anterior margins, and a tolerably deep longitudinal channel 
extends to a little beyond the forehead. Palpi brownish black, 
pale at the apex of the articles. Mandibles black, wrinkled, 
punctate, sharp, smooth and curved at the extremity, tolerably 
dilated on the interior margin, and furnished with a toot 
with an emargination near the base. abrum transverse, 
narrow, black. ypeus almost cut straight. Eyes rounded, 
emarginate above, black. Antennz a little longer than the 
body, black, with elongate articles almost equal (with the ex- 
ception of the second, which is short). The first is thick, 
rugosely punctate; its base has a transverse notch, and its 
apex is feebly angular. Thorax of a very brilliant golden 
copper, subcylindric, straight both in front and behind, more 
slender and attenuated near the anterior edge, wrinkled on the 
base, with small and distant punctures. Scutellum subcordi- 
form, punctate, brilliant green. Elytra very closely punctate, 
and, as it were, shagreened, searcely broader than the thorax, 
rounded on the shoulder, a little dilated towards the apex, 
which is rounded; they are of a fine green on the inner half, 
and a blackish green on the outer half, Breast and abdomen 
of a more delicate green; the segments, which are five in 
number, have their posterior margin blue. Legs of a fine 
indigo-blue; the four anterior thighs are suddenly swollen, 
the posterior are longer, passing beyond the elytra, and gra- 
dually thickened without becoming very strong; the apex of 
the four anterior tibiæ, as well as the first pair of tarsi, has 
an ash-coloured pubescence, and the remainder are fringed with 
that colour. 
I have not received this. M.Chevrolat describes it from 
the collection of the late General Feisthamel. It is now in 
the British Museum (Chevrolat’s collection). 
CORDYLOMERA, Serv. 
1. Cordylomera gratiosa, Dej. Cat. 3rd ed. p. 353. 
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