Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 175 
covered with sparing ashy hairs springing from the unctures, 
generally bent. Palpi and labium ferruginous. andibles 
and antenne black. Scutellum smooth, black, and impune- 
tate. Legs fuscous. Body below lightly pubescent and finely 
punctate. 
I have only seen a single female specimen. In my collec- 
tion. 
HESPEROPHANES, Muls. 
Hesperophanes fasciatus. 
Callidium egit c oma Be Re ad jepi ms pp. 191, 269. 
Hesperophanes caliginosus 9rd ed 
Valde pubescens, rae aneus; wide Mead fasciisque 
tribus elytrorum villoso Vases antennis longis.  . 
Long. 6-12 lin., lat. 11-3 1 
This has come in ieee REO 
SMODICUM, Lec. 
Smodicum ebeninum, Pl. II. fig. 3. Chevr. Rev. et Mag. 
d. Zool. 1855, p. 183. 
Dense pen. nigro-piceum, nitidum; antennis (11 ar- 
ticulis) pedibusque obscure rufis; capite longitudine sul- 
cato; thorace longiore ic latiore, subovali, antice pos- 
ticeque recto, vix marginato, in dorso circulatim depresso ; 
elytris rotundatis, bicostatis ; corpore infra nitidiore; abdo- 
mine quinque segmentis. 
Long. 7 li $ is ee Sin 
picni black, y punctulated, shining; antennz and 
legs dull rufous. ” Head longitudinally sulcate. Thorax longer 
than broad, somewhat oval, scarcely margined, with a cire 
depression on the disk. "Elytra rounded, with two codi. 
dy below more shining. vins with five segments. 
In Chevrolat's and my collectio 
This is the first instance that as eceurred of a species of 
the American genus Smodicum having been met with out of 
the New Continent. 
DISTENIA, Serv. 
ee iiia Rev. et Mag: d. Tor 1895, P 9s 
Palidis; thorace antice posticeque recto, transversim bi- 
stricto, lateribus angulato; elytris singulatim in humero 
late, in apice anguste rotundatis, punctato-striatis (sex striis, 
