Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 407 
XLIT.—List of Coleoptera received from Old dier on the 
West Coast of Africa. By ANDREW Murray, F.L.S. 
[Continued from p. 176.] 
APOMEMPSIS, Pasc. Journ. Ent. ii. p. 278. 
Apomempsis bufo. Pl. III. fig. 11. 
Phrissoma bufo, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 1855, p. 186. 
Susie, bigibbosus, remote et fortiter punctatus et obscurus; 
capite antice truncato et grosse punctato, declivi in vertice et 
impunctato, in longitudinem anguste suleato, inter antennas 
profunde. A Rear labioque A ni mandi- 
ulis : ifidis; antennis undecim arti- 
culis, tertio ere oibus thorace elongato, antice 
pes recto, medio gibboso, nigricante et binodoso, 
ateribus breviter unispinoso supra et ultra medium; scu- 
tello lato, triangulari; elytris basi depressis (bispinosis), 
subito dorso gibbosis cum seriebus duabus tuberculorum, ad 
marginem obtuse serratis; abdomine quinque segmentis ; ; 
femoribus tibiisque versus medium nigro annulatis, tibiis in 
apice extus subemarginatis, fulvo pilosis. 
Long. 5 lin., lat. 23 lin. 
Winged, bigibbous, remotely and coarsely punctured, and 
Secure’ Head deeply emarginate between the antenne, nar- 
rowly longitudinally sulcate. Eyes small and bifid. Antenne 
with eleven articles, third and fourth very long, the rest to 
_ the apex small. "Thorax gibbous in the middle, blackish and 
binodose, with the sides unispinose above and beyond the 
middle. Scutellum broadly triangular. Elytra depressed at 
the base (bispinose), abruptly gibbous on the back, with Pe: 
rows of tubercles, obtusely serrate on the margin. ’ Abdom 
with five segments. Thighs and tibie annulated with black 
near the middle ; pate fulvo-pilose and subemarginate on the 
outer side at the a 
moved from the; genus Phrissoma, by Mr. Pascoe, into a 
new genus, Apomempsis, established by him to receive it. 
This is adopted by Prof. Lacordaire, and the genus ranked by 
him among the Panai. Mr. Pascoe may be right in 
separating it from Phrissoma, although it seems to me that it 
would have been better to have widened the diagnosis of 
that genus to receive or retain it; that, however, is not of 
much consequence: but it seems to me that it is both in op- 
position to its natural affinities and its geographical distribu- 
tion to remove it into the Parmenide. ‘There is no other of 
