The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . y its size and a large tuft of yellow hair andtwo small projecting triangular teeth on the forehead. Theelytra are marked with punctures running into each other, andmaking a series of rather fine rugosities or slight leticulations. 1 have no doubt tradition is correct in assigning this insectto Olivier^s terebrans, although his figure represents an insectconsiderably shorter. This we may assume to be an error inthe drawing, because we know no other species which is so likethe drawing as this, and the description in the
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . y its size and a large tuft of yellow hair andtwo small projecting triangular teeth on the forehead. Theelytra are marked with punctures running into each other, andmaking a series of rather fine rugosities or slight leticulations. 1 have no doubt tradition is correct in assigning this insectto Olivier^s terebrans, although his figure represents an insectconsiderably shorter. This we may assume to be an error inthe drawing, because we know no other species which is so likethe drawing as this, and the description in the text correspondswnth that of the species. I have wasted a good deal of time in carefully comparing theAfrican and Brazilian specimens, with the expectation or desireof finding some difference between them ; but have been unableto find anything that is constant or could be called specific. Asa rule, the African specimens are more distinctly and deeplymarked, and have a deeper fovea round the scutellum; butsometimes there is no such difference, or even the reverse Mr. A. Murray on Coleoptera from Old Calabar. 85 If a number of Brazilian and African specimens were mixedtogether, I think it would be impossible to assign them all cor-rectly to their different countries, although probably the majoritymight be successfully guessed at. Not rare in Old Calabar. The same species also extends to Natal. 2. Apate muricata, Fab. Syst. El. Nigra; capite piano, epistomate parum fulvo pilosoantice; thorace utiinque antice dentibus parumuncinatis instructor elytris profunde reticulatis,nitidissimis. Long. 14 lin., lat. 4^ lin. This is a large, handsome insect (the finest of thefamily), cylindrical, black, with the elytra stronglyimpressed with deep coarse reticulations, and theraised parts glittering and shining. Head punctate posteriorly,almost impunctate in front, leaving smooth shining spacesabout the middle and on each side, with a longitudinal linedown the middle, somewhat more dee
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