476 Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 
and posterior margins, with the base regularly constricted. 
Scutellum marked with a yellowish rounded patch. Elytra 
broader than the thorax, broad and little flattened, projecting 
and rectangular, on the shoulder, shortly truncate at the apex, 
marked with striz formed of small punctures placed rather 
close to each other. Their surface is covered with little drops 
of blackish brown. Legs and underside of a uniform grey. 
Described by M. Chevrolat from a specimen received by 
Mr. Hislop; but a specimen, named by him, which I have 
seems to me only a small variety of M. ruspator. 
3. Monohammus basalis, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 
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Brunneo cinereoque variegatus ; capite thoraceque (spina late- 
rali valida) vage punctatis ; palpis oculisque nigris; anten- 
nis nigris, longis (9), robustis, fusco longe cinereoque 
breviter annulatis; scutello subquadrato, cinereo, intus de- 
presso; elytris crebre punctatis, ad basin minute tubercu- 
latis, ad apicem subtruncatis, fasciis duabus nigricantibus 
prima lata basah infra triangulariter protensa, secunda 
obliqua ultra medium. 
Long. 91-12 lin., lat. 3-31 lin. 
strong lateral spine, which is closely punctate; the disk and 
he sides are only sparsely punctate. Scutellum somewhat 
square, ash-coloured, depressed in the middle. Elytra of the 
