Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 477 
on the basal band. Body below and legs of an ash-colour 
less obscure than above, marked by scattered distant punc- 
tures; middle tibiæ excised about the middle of the outer 
margin, and feebly pilose to the apex ; tarsi of a more or less 
obscure ash-colour fringed by silken and golden hai 
M. ruspator, Fab. (nubifer, Sch.), differs in E "is basal 
dark-brown space triangular, and never occupying the oe 
der; this has the whole base, shoulder included, of the brow 
colour. It is a larger species, and has longer and de'n 
antennæ 
One specimen. In my collection. 
4. Monohammus Map ind Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 
1856, p. 490. 
Vage punctatus, fuscus; mandibulis, oculis et in vertice ca- 
pitis quatuor maculis sericeis nigris; thorace antice uni- et 
postice bistricto, tuberculis duobus dorsalibus, spina laterali 
sat valida ; elytris fasciis duabus obscuris, LPS latissima 
e basi ad medium, e secunda ultra mediu 
Long. 10 lin., lat. 34 li 
This species would ni been more correctly named had 
it been called oculiocciput instead of oculifrons, the black 
patches from which it is named being quite at the back of the 
head, so as to be almost concealed under the thorax when the 
head is bent back. It is of a brownish ash-colour,and marked 
by small distant punctures. Head strong, longitudinally sul- 
cate in front, with four subocellate velvety black patches 
joined together posteriorly on the occiput. Labrum large, 
square. Clypeus transverse, pale ash-coloured. Ante 
entirely brown, scarcely longer than the body (in the ERR ; 
first article elongated, swollen and nodulated at the apex. 
Thorax as long as broad, straight at the extremities, with ` 
three bagi ie grooves, of which the anterior is flexuous and 
the two at the base straight; it is bituberculate towards the 
disk near the anterior sides, depressed in the centre, and with 
Scutellum pp rather 
large. Tiris rid rectangular, raised on the shoulder 
tends from the base to the middle e, and the second, which is 
narrow, is beyond the middle. Middle tibize furnished on the 
outside with an emarginate tooth, and fringed up to the apex 
with a yellowish down. Five abdominal segments, first = 
fifth large: 
Not comm 
Ann. & Mag. 'N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. vi. 32 
