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fourth the size of that of C. similaris; it is quite similar in a specimen from San Gerd- 
‘nimo and in another from Guanajuato. 
4. Carpophilus similaris, sp. n. 
Nigerrimus, opacus, pedibus piceo-nigris, tarsis rufo-sordidis; prothorace fortius punctato, disco haud rugoso, 
posterius leviter deplanato; elytris obsolete punctatis. 
Long. 43 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This species almost exactly resembles C. funebris—so far at least as a single pair not 
in good condition enables me to judge—but is distinguished by the more distant 
punctuation on the middle of the thorax and by the different sexual characters; the 
female has no carina on the last dorsal plate, and the male has a broad vague depression 
on each side of the last ventral plate; the cedeagus of this sex shows such strongly 
marked differences from that of C. funebris as to leave little doubt that the two are 
quite distinct. 
5. Carpophilus lugubris. (Tab. IX. fig. 11, ¢, underside.) 
Carpophilus lugubris, Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 3557. 
Subparallelus, subopacus, nigricans, prothoracis marginibus lateralibus ferrugineis, elytris ad humeros rufo- 
notatis, antennis pedibusque rufis, illis extrorsum, his femoribus plus minusve infuscatis ; prothorace 
dense rugose-punctato, disco posterius leviter deplanato; elytris obsolete sculpturatis, circa scutellum 
punctura magis discreta. 
Long. 43 millim. 
Hab. North America, Florida !.—Mextico, Ciudad in Durango, Pachuca in Hidalgo, 
San Andres Chalchicomula, Esperanza, Jalapa (Hége), Guanajuato, Puebla (Saldé) ; 
GuatEemaLA, Zapote, Duefias, Capetillo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 
(Champion)—Soutn America, Venezuela}. 
This is extremely similar to C. niger, Say, but is rather more parallel, and has different 
male characters ; the thoracic margin is very nearly entire, the crenulations seen in the 
preceding species and in C. niger being absent; C. lugubris has, moreover, less coarse 
punctuation on the basal and sutural parts of the elytra. 
The male of C. lugubris has two quite circular very deep depressions on the last 
ventral plate; these are situated rather near to the middle, and the space between 
them is not depressed. The female has no carina on the pygidium, but this is slightly 
convex, and more shining just at the extremity. 
Herr Hége met with a large series of this insect near Ciudad, but the other localities 
have each yielded only one or two specimens. It varies a good deal in size, and in the 
extent to which the ferruginous colour invades the surface. 
C. lugubris is united by Horn with C. niger; but this is not correct, and [ think it 
probable the American savant may have been misled by specimens wrongly named by 
Murray. , 
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