296 NITIDULIDZ. 
22. Carpophilus elaterinus, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 15.) 
Parvus, depressus, dense punctatus, ferrugineus, supra fusco-ferrugineus, prothoracis limbo ferrugineo, antennis 
pedibusque flavis, illarum clava fusca; prothoracis margine laterali subtili, angulis posterioribus acutis. 
Long. 24 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Tolé (Champion). 
Thorax densely punctate, broadly flavescent at the sides, especially at the hind angles, 
the disc rather flattened, the neighbourhood of the hind angles unusually deplanate, 
the base deeply sinuate on each side, so that the hind angles are acute and directed 
backwards, the base exactly of the width of the base of the elytra; the sides very 
slightly curved, the lateral margin delicate. Elytra densely and finely punctate. 
This distinct little species differs from C. marginatus and C. erichsoni by the finely 
margined thorax; the form of the hind angles is not quite the same in any other 
species of Carpophilus that I have seen. 
§7. Mesosternum and metasternum simple ; male with a supplementary segment at 
the extremity of the body; form transversely convex; margins of the elytra not 
Jimbriate. Male front tarsi greatly dilated, but the legs not curved ; female usually 
with peculiar fovee on the margins of the pygidium. (Subgenera Endomerus and 
Nitops, Murray.) (Species 23-28.) 
Murray founded the subgenus Hndomerus for the species of this group known to 
him ; the character on which he based it is, however, illusory, the hind body, far from 
being shorter than usual, is perhaps longer; the retracted condition of the apical 
segments in dried examples being due to the fact that the abdominal rings are more 
circular than usual. 
23. Carpophilus piger. 
Carpophilus piger, Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 384, t. 33. f. 3°. 
Hab. Guatemata ' (Sallé), Duefias (Champion). 
We have received only five examples of this species, two of which are from Sallé’s 
collection, and all are males. ‘They have the tarsi greatly dilated, those on the front 
legs being indeed nearly circular ; there is a rather large depression on the middle of 
the last ventral plate, and behind this, close to the hind margin of the segment, a 
slightly raised line; the punctuation of the metasternum has a peculiar granular 
appearance. 
24. Carpophilus palmatus, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 17, 3.) 
Fusco-niger, subtiliter pubescens, subopacus, antennis pedibusque sordide testaceis, illarum clava nigra; 
prothorace dense subtiliter punctato, basi utrinque subsinuata, angulis obtusis; elytris elongatis, sub- 
obsolete punctatis. 
Long. 34 millim. 
