174 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
nuibus, simplicibus, dimidia corporis longitudine, undecim 
articulis, primo majore, tertio longiore, quarto tertio dimidio 
breviore, quinto tertio fere equali, sequentibus gradatim 
minoribus. "Thorax capite duplo longior, sine spinis vel tu- 
bereulis equaliter subovatus, ad medium latior, antice et 
postice recte truncatus, sat convexus, dorso hic et illie le- 
viter impressus. Scutellum semicirculare. — Elytra dorso 
shows that this is only superficial. The texture is different, 
the thorax and the eyes different in shape, the antennze more 
slender, and the underside of the tarsi clothed with a thick 
brush of hair, while in the Asemideæ it is only sparingly fur- 
nished with finer hairs. The ligula would supply a test by 
which it could at once be settled whether it belongs to the 
section in which the Asemidz are placed, or to the section to 
whic have referred it; but I have only one specimen in 
rather a fragile state, and I hesitate to risk 1t in dissecting out 
the ligula, the more so that I think the above characters are 
sufficient to show that it does not belong to the Asemidze, but 
that it either belongs to the Hesperophanide or is in their 
vicinity. 
The species for which I have found it necessary to propose 
this genus was described by M. Chevrolat as an Gimona; but 
it seems to me not to belong to the group in which GZmona is 
placed, and is most certainly not an CEmona, which has a 
cylindrical thorax with transverse folds or wrinkles, neither 
of which this has. 
Aphoplistus pilosellus, 
(mona pilosella, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 1858, p. 53. 
Saturate purpureo-brunneus, fere niger, sat crebre sparsim 
irregulariter punctatus, pilis brevibus inflexis cinereis sat 
dense vestitus; labio et palpis ferrugineis; antennis nigris. 
Long. 7 lin., lat. 2 lin. 
Deep purplish brown, irregularly and sparse!y punctate, 
