Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from “Old Calabar.. 409° 
not be universal in Guinea and only rarely present in Old 
Calabar 
part. Antenne shorter than the body, black, ringed with ash- 
colour; the first article is tumid and scabrous on the outside, 
the third is twice the length of the fifth, and the last article is 
terminated with a claw. Thorax transverse, straight, grooved 
near the anterior and posterior margins, ash-coloured an 
depressed in the form of a sort of cross on the back, lateral spine 
tolerably sharp. Scutellum large, short, semirounded, fawn- 
coloured. Elytra short, deep, convex, broader than the head 
and the thorax, rectangular at the base and to the outside of 
the shoulder, rounded at the apex to the suture, which termi- 
nates in a right angle and rises until near the middle; the 
shoulder has a triangular yellow patch; and each elytron has, 
behind the middle, two flexuous whitish bands, which are not 
well defined; there are also indistinct longitudinal ridges with 
an indistinct wrinkled punctation. Legs moderate; thighs 
suddenly swollen, in some instances the anterior thighs rismg 
continuously into a prominent flat tri i ibiæ 
t flat triangular spine; tibiæ 
arched near the knees, keeled longitudinally below, blackish,. 
