166 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
of the same colour as the metasternum. The thorax is more 
coarsely punctate, and has deeper fovez, and one immediately 
in front of the scutellum; the sides have two more decided 
tubercles; the scutellum is not so much punctate; the elytra 
are more coarsely punctate ; the suture rufous, and indications 
of the same colour shine through the green on the rest of the 
it in honour of my friend Mr. Pascoe, who has done so much 
(ime, Newm. 
Gime nigrita, Pl. II. fig. 1. Chevr. Rev. Zool. 1855, p. 183. 
Fortiter et crebre punctata, nigra, nitida, pube rutila partim 
"induta; antennis pedibusque validis; capite magno, rotun- 
dato, rugoso, antice profunde medioque supra vix sulcato, 
antennis articulis undecim planis elongatis; thorace brevi, 
transverso, subrotundato, lateribus subangulato, antice recto 
(dein stricto), postice leviter bisinuato et marginato, in lon- 
gitudine postica suleato; elytris conjunctim rotundatis, a 
medium unicostatis ; abdomine segmentis quinque. 
Long. 10 lin., lat. 3 lin. 
The figure, by M. Migneaux, renders any further descriptive 
remarks unnecessary. 
are. e or two specimens only. 
Until the discovery of this species, the genus contained 
nothing but American species, mostly Brazilian, which, in- 
stead of black, are of a bright reddish yellow. 
CEDENODERUS, Chevr. 
, Among the species which I received from Old Calabar, and 
intrusted to M. Deeds for description, was a livid testaceo- 
ferruginous insect, that looked something like a Callidium. 
M. Chevrolat described it as such, with a point of doubt, 
under the name of Callidium? spheericolle. He said, * The 
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