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Show 488 MR. H. w. BATES O N [June 17, and forming a long triangular spot. The abdomen and middle the sterna are red, as he describes, and the species is certainly distinct from P. apicalis, Westw. 1843 (= ivestermanni, Guer. 1844), the typical example of which I have before me. P. theorini is found at the Gaboon and in the Cameroons district, whence I have received examples. It is represented at Old Calabar by a closely allied species with black abdomen1. Family LAMIID_E. MONOHAMMUS ? A single imperfect example of a species allied to M. ruspator, Fabr. COPTOPS FUSCA, Olivier. Many examples of this widely-distributed species. PTNACOSTERNA NACHTIGALI, Harold. A species, so far as at present known, confined to the Congo and Gaboon basins. QtJTMALANCA REGALIS, Fabr. This common West-African species was obtained in considerable numbers by Mr. Bonny. GELOHARPYA AMOSNA, Westw. This fine species is found also on the Ogowe and Gaboon. West-wood records it from the Gold Coast; his figure agrees exactly with specimens from the Gaboon. STERNOTOMIS VIRESCENS, Westw. Several examples. STERNOTOMIS BIFASCIATA, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 175 (1775). Lamia imperialis, Fabr. Syst. El. ii. p. 286 (1801). Many examples of the common form as found on the Guinea coast. STERNOTOMIS VARIABILIS, Quedenfeldt, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1881, p. 289, and 1882, p. 341. This very distinct species appears to be abundant on the Aruwimi, 1 PARISTEMIA CALABARICA, n. sp. A P. apicali differt elytris longioribus, versus apicem magis dilatatis, supra utrinque A-costatis, costa quarta submarginali, fulvis, plaga apicali nigra stout in P. apicali, magna, medio antice utrinque dentata,producta,plagaque communi nigra triangulari paullo ante medium: subtus nigra; pro- et meso-sternis medio flavis ; thorace vittis duabus niqris etc. sicut in P. apicali. Long. 21-24 millim. 2 • Old Calabar. Two examples. I would have adopted the M S . name P. costata for this species, had not Murray expressly withdrawn that name and stated that his species was certainly P. apicalis, he having compared it with examples from Sierra Leone. |