290 NITIDULID. 
6. Carpophilus rufitarsis. 
Carpophilus rufitarsis, Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 354°. 
Hab. Guatemaa (Sallé 1). 
I have only two females of this species at my disposal ; it is the largest Carpophilus 
I know, and it is most nearly allied to C. similaris, but is a larger, broader, and flatter 
insect with finer punctuation, and with the punctures on the elytra unusually definite. 
The thoracic lateral margin is not crenulate. ‘There is no carina on the last dorsal 
plate, which is more elongate than usual. M. Sallé’s examples are not marked with 
more exact locality. 
7. Carpophilus transitans, sp. n. 
Niger, opacus, obsolete punctatus, pube variegata minus subtili vestitus, prothoracis lateribus, pedibus 
antennisque sordide rufis, his clava fusca. 
Long. 34 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hoge); GuatemaLa, Duefias (Salvin, Champion), Guatemala 
city, San Gerénimo, Quiche Mts. (Champion). 
In this species the punctuation is obsolete, that is, true impressed punctures can 
scarcely be distinguished either on the thorax or elytra; the sculpture is not dense, 
and is rendered still more indistinct by the pubescence being more marked than usual ; 
this pubescence is dark, but is sprinkled with flavescent-grey hairs, and these latter are 
most dense on the scutellum and at the humeral angles. The sides of the thorax are 
a good deal curved. The male has no depressions on the last ventral segment; the 
female has a longitudinal elevation on the pygidium near the extremity, and the lateral 
margins of this plate are rather more raised than usual. 
We have received numerous specimens from Guatemala, but only one from Mexico ; 
unfortunately nearly all are in a bad state of preservation. 
8. Carpophilus deflexus, sp. n. 
Minus depressus, fortius punctatus, opacus, pube variegata minus subtili vestitus, nigro-ferrugineus, limbo 
dilutiore, elytrorum humeris, pedibus antennisque rufis, his clava fusca ; prothoracis margine laterali ante 
angulum posteriorem leviter impresso. 
Long. 4—41 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Mirador (Hége); GuatmmMaua, Cerro Zunil, Duefias (Champion). 
This species has the sculpture unusually coarse, and it may be readily distinguished 
from C. lugubris by this character, and by the peculiar depression on each side of the 
thorax; the pubescence is variegate, like that of C. transitans. The male has a single 
broad depression on the middle of the last ventral plate, and differs from the corre- 
sponding sex of all other species of this group in having the basal half of the middle 
tibia cut away internally so as to be much more slender than the apical half. The 
female has a slight convexity of the middle of the pygidium towards the extremity. 
