410 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
ash-coloured in the middle; tarsi grey; claws simple, robust, 
black. It is about 6 or 7 lines in length and 2} in breadth. 
It seems to me that the proper place for this species is 
among the Phrissomide, and next to Velleda, to which it 
has much general resemblance. 
BATOCERA, Cast. 
Batocera Wyliet, Chevr. 
Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. Feb. 1858, p. 54. 
Batocera Albertiana, J. Thoms. Archiv. Entom. ii. 457 (1858). 
With the perfect facies and characters of the genus. The 
most striking differences that on the most superficial view 
present themselves from B. rubus are the greater length, espe- 
cially of the elytra, and comparative narrowness and greater 
roughness and coarseness of texture or surface. Ashy brown, 
more or less obscure. Head impunctate, vertical in front, 
narrowly channelled in the middle. Mandibles and eyes black. 
Labrum narrow, transverse, yellowish. Antennæ of the length 
of the body, punctate, flattened above, and ash-coloured ; first 
article obscure, strong, swollen at the top, with an oblique cica- 
trice and tubercular asperities on its outer side; second artiele 
very short; third very long and, as well as the fourth to the 
eighth inclusive, armed below with small sharp spines, which 
diminish both in number and length towards the latter. Tho- 
rax a little narrower than long, straight and rounded cylin- 
drically in front, deeply bisinuate behind, obscure on the 
sides, with about a dozen transverse wrinkles, most of them 
sinuous, the three next the base alone straight; lateral spine 
very robust, sharp, blackish, and marked with a deep impres- 
sion at the base. Scutellum large, subconical, although 
rounded. Elytra elongate, narrow, parallel, convex, bearing 
small, black, flattened, smooth a from the base to be- 
yond the middle ; these become smaller and more numerous as 
they recede from the base: there is a large irregular patch of 
yellowish ash-colour about the middle; other smaller spots of 
