Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 411 
the same colour are dispersed here and there to the apex; the 
shoulder is raised, and bears a spine; the apex of the suture 
is also spined and sinuate; the margin is feebly raised and 
blackish. Legs and body below obscure lead-coloured ; sides 
of the breast and abdomen yellowish; posterior margins of 
the abdominal segments fringed with yellow hairs, the last 
segment emarginate at the apex. 
This species was described and published (loc. cit.) by M. 
Chevrolat in Feb. 1858, and again, in the same year, in the 
‘Archives Entom.,’ by M. James Thomson, under the name 
of B, Albertiana. That work appeared in numbers; and as it 
does not occur until p. 457, there is little doubt that it must 
have been in some part of the year subsequent to February. 
M. Chevrolat’s name therefore is entitled to the precedence. 
It was named by M. Chevrolat, at my suggestion, in honour 
of Mr. Wylie, one of the Old-Calabar missionaries, to whose 
assistance I was very particularly indebted. He returned to 
this country only to die—another of the valuable lives which 
have fallen before that baleful climate. 
e genus Batocera is an Indian form. The type B. rubus 
is found almost all over India and the Indo-Malayan district ; 
and numerous other species have been found in the Malayan 
and New-Guinea district, and in China. Its appearance in 
Africa is to be explained by the former union of Africa and 
India, and the common origin of a large number of their in- 
habitants. 
PHRYNETA, Cast. Suites à Buff. Ins. 474. 
1. Phryneta brunnicornis, Guér. Regn. An. Ins. 239. 
Phryneta bisignata, Dej. i 
Dejean’s name is much the more characteristic, the most 
striking feature in the species being the possession of a dark 
brownish-black patch on the middle of the outer side of each 
elytron, similar in shape and hue to that in Monohammus la- 
teralis from Java. ; 
This species is known from Angola. I have received one 
Specimen from Old Calabar. 
2. Phryneta obscura, Oliv. Ent. 
Lamia spinator, Fab. Syst. El. 
Phryneta rustica, Dej. Cat. ed. 3. p. 368. 
Not very rare. 
3. Phryneta luctuosa. 
Affinis Ph. obscura, colore saturatiore, et elytris cum maculis 
transversis fere in fasciis conyexis oscitur 
Long. 10 lin., lat. 31-4 lin. 
