172 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
- apicali femorum nigro-nitidis ; mandibulis oculisque nigris ; 
thorace brevi, antice subanguloso et postice recte truncato, 
- basi trinodoso; scutello rotundato; elytris thorace multo 
latioribus, planiusculis, antice posticeque rotundatis, in su- 
tura aculeatis, costulis duabus longitudinalibus obsoletis. 4 
Long. 81-9 lin., lat. 23-3 lin. 
Pubescent and of a reddish-yellow colour. Head rounded 
in front, cylindrical behind, shortly grooved between the eyes, 
but flat, plicate, and grooved in front. Eyes black, projecting, 
emarginate above. Palpi brownish. Mandibles black, mode- 
rate, bent, sharp, punctate. Antenne ferruginous, with the Hy 
first article thick, cylindrical, of the length of the fifth; second 
nodular; third and fourth equal, slightly swollen at the apex. 
Thorax as long as broad, projecting on the head, and of its 
breadth at their junction, straight behind, two-grooved trans- 
versely, sides obtusely projecting in the middle, attenuated 
towards the posterior angle, which is oblique and truncate 
ind; three tubercles behind near the base. Scutellum 
rounded. Elytra broader than the thorax, flattened, raised 
and rounded on the shoulder, each rounded at the apex, with 
a spine at the suture and two longitudinal obsolete ridges. 
Legs short, the first four tolerably near at their insertion, 
posterior longer, ferruginous, with the thighs ferruginous at 
the base, afterwards of a brilliant black, and a little swollen ; £ 
the anterior are bent and depressed in front; claws simple. : 
Abdomen with five segments, swollen, depressed on the mar- 
gins of the segments, which are rather broad and decreasing 
VU DRE ce Epiri re 
* 
in size from before backwards. 
M. Chevrolat placed this species in the genus ZZeterogaster 
(now Anisogaster) with doubt; but as I have parted with the 
only specimen I received to him, and as I cannot trace it in 
the British Museum, although his collection has been secured 
by that institution, I am obliged to leave it as he has placed 
it, with a point of doubt. Anisogaster is a genus which as 
yet has been found only in Mauritius. r 
OSSIBIA, Pascoe. 
Amn. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, xix. p. 311. 
Ossibia fuscata. ; 
Obrium fuscatum, Dej. Cat. p. 358 (mas). 
—— ustulatum, Dej. Cat. p. 358 (foem.). 
Obrium? fuscatum, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 1856, p. 570. 
Ossibia fus 1 
t 
cata, Pascoe, loc. cit. supra. 
Linearis, depressa, lurida, crebre punctata denseque cinereo 
pilosa; antennis (basi preetermissa) elytrisque lateribus late 
