450 MR. A. MURRAY ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF 



to be drawn is, that there is a little oyerflowing, on the one hand, from America into 

 Asia, and a somewhat greater overflowing, on the other, into Africa. 



The FJieropsopM, or larger Brachini, furnish an instance the converse of what we 

 see in Galerita. Their metropolis is in tropical Asia and West Africa ; hut a few and 

 rare New- World species are found in Eastern South America. Three or four species 

 only are to be found in America, to balance the fifteen or sixteen of Africa. 



I do not take into account the genera Galleida and Lebia, which, as at present con- 

 stituted, are to be found all over the world. But there is one genus or subgenus of 

 the family established by Eschscholtz, viz. Lia, confined to South America, of a peculiar 

 facies, very smooth, very convex, and of a pale colour, which has a congener in Old Cala- 

 bar, so like in form and general appearance, though of a finer colour (being, when alive, 

 of a lovely delicate flesh-colour), that no one can doubt its affinity, although some of the 

 characters given for Lia are not exactly found in it. This is a very marked instance of 

 a purely American form, found nowhere else on the face of the globe (so far as we yet 

 know), reappearing on the West Coast of Africa. The reader will find a South- American 

 species Lia affinis contrasted with my Lia clavicornis in PL XLVII. figs. 2 and 2 a. 



Another, similar instance occurs in the genus Goniotropis. The whole of the species 

 of that genus are American, with the exception of three African, of which one is a new 

 species, described by me, from Old Calabar. The other two are not recognizable from 

 the descriptions (BruUe's and Hope's), and may or may not really belong to the genus ; 

 but there is no doubt as to my Old Calabar species being as close as can well be to 

 G. castanea of New Granada. Compare figs. 3 and 3 a of PI. XLVII., being respectively 

 Goniotropis castanea and my G. Wijlei. Lacordaire erroneously unites with this genus 

 Pseudozcsna orientalis of Klug, and equally erroneously, as I think, keeps distinct from 

 it Seller's genus Tropopsis from Chili. 



Dejean's genus Rypolitlms, notwithstanding the difficulty of finding appreciable 

 characters to distinguish it from Harpalus, has a sufficiently marked facies to make it 

 readily recognized by the eye, the upper surface having a peculiar granulated texture. 

 West Africa and South America are the sole countries where they have been found. 

 Old Calabar produces two species. 



America possesses a peculiar form of Orectochilus (of which the most readily seizable 

 character is the want of a scuteUum) ; no species of this has hitherto been found out of 

 America. Old Calabar has now produced one. 



In the Histeridse, a peculiar rounded form cUstinguishes the genus Omalodes. No 

 species exactly of that genus has been found elsewhere ; but species of an allied genus, 

 Contipus, forming the transition between it and the ordinary form of Sister, have been 

 found in Yucatan, Senegal, and Old Calabar. 



In the Nitidiilidse, two species of the American form Prometopia have been found 

 in Africa; and the genus Flatychora is represented by Thomson's Pherocopis, species 

 of which have been found on both sides of the continent. Lobiopa senegalensis is scarcely 

 distinguishable from the South -American L. contaminata. 



Among the Trogositidse, species of AUndria are found in 1)oth countries. 



In the Buprestidfe I may specially refer to the genera Actenodes and Belionota as of 



