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beak light brown. Whilst oe. this bird, I was asto- 
nished to find a quantity of white worms in the muscles of the 
thigh. I examined the rest of the hody and the stomach, but 
: did: not find any elsewhere.—Z. H. B. 
24. Mergus serrator. 
Mergus serrator, Linn. ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 323. 
No. 25. Shot at Nagiak, Feb. 11, 1870. Beak and legs 
red; eyes yellowish brown. Stomach contained half-digested 
fish.—R. H. B. 
25. Fuligula marila. 
a marila (Linn.) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 324. 
No. 4. Duck, shot at Yokohama, Dec. 16, 1869. Legs and 
beak bluish black ; eyes yellow, with black pupils. —AR. H. B. 
XIV.— List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the 
West Coast of Africa. By ANDREW Murray, F.L.S. 
[Continued from p. 56. ] 
HELYMÆUS, J. Thoms. 
Helymeeus rufiventris. 
Closteromerus rufiventris, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 1855, p. 514. 
Alatus, niger ; capite punctato ; thorace — plicato ; 
scutello bifido, viridi ; elytris cyaneo-viri albo setosis, 
medium versus subcoarctatis, ultra Mode acu pati et con- 
vexis, apice truncatis et singulatim bidentatis, pone scutel- . 
E um seriebus tribus vel quatuor punctorum plus minusve 
ressorum ; pectore crebre punetato, M albo villoso ; 
ih omine rufo; femoribus valde clavatis 
Long. 33 lin., lat. 1} lin. 
As black as ebony. Head narrow, elongated, vertical in 
front, very finely an distinetly punctate. Thorax cylindrical, 
bous à above, with some silky white pubescence on the sides; 
above feebly transversely wrinkled. Scutellum triangular, 
bifid. Elytra blue or greenish blue, advanced a little obliquely 
at the shoulder, sli htly narrowed towards the middle, broader 
and convex behind it, truncated and bidentate at the apex o 
n. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 
