298 NITIDULID. 
have received only two females of C. ventralis. It is extremely like C. palmatus, though 
only half the size. 
27. Carpophilus concolor, sp. n. 
Testaceus, obsolete punctatus, subtiliter pubescens, fere opacus ; prothorace anterius paullo angustiore, angulis 
posterioribus nullis. 
Long. 23-3 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata (Sallé), Guatemala city, Capetillo, Zapote (Champion). 
Eyes rather small. Thorax distinctly narrower in front than at the base, the sides but 
little rounded ; the base not sinuate, very little rounded, the position of the hind angles 
only just evident; the surface moderately closely and finely, not deeply, punctate. 
Elytra elongate, rather sparingly and obsoletely punctate. In the male there is a small 
bare space along the middle of the last ventral plate. In the female the pygidium is 
unusually broad, rounded at the end, and at each outer side at the extremity has a 
very minute deep fovea. 
The pallid and uniform colour distinguishes this from the allied species. ‘The fovea 
on each side of the apex of the pygidium of the female is difficult to perceive owing to 
its position and minute size: I should not have detected this had I not looked specially 
for it after becoming acquainted with the peculiar structure in the corresponding sex of 
C. palmatus. We have received nearly twenty specimens of C. concolor. 
28. Carpophilus ophthalmicus. 
Carpophilus ophthalmicus, Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 383, t. 33. f. 8’. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé+).—TRintpap |. 
I do not think this species has really been found in our region. Murray says!: “From 
Mexico and Trinidad. Collected by M. Sallé.” The specimens named C. ophthalmicus 
in the Sallé collection are, however, Haptoncus luteolus (Er.), which has a considerable 
superficial resemblance to C. ophthalmicus; and I am of opinion that Murray described 
the species from a Trinidad type, and hastily and erroneously identified the examples 
from Mexico as the same species. 
§ 8. Mesosternum and metasternum simple ; male with curved hind legs and the pygi- 
dium not covering the supplementary segment ; margins of the elytra not fimbriate. 
(Species 29-31.) 
29. Carpophilus mexicanus. (Tab. IX. fig. 20, ¢.) 
? Carpophilus mexicanus, Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xii. p. 175°. 
? Carpophilus limbipennis, Reitter, t. c. p. 174°. 
Hab. Mexico 12, Mexico city (Hodge), Guanajuato (Sallé). 
It is impossible to say with certainty what Reitter intended by his descriptions! ?, as 
