302 NITIDULID. 
C. pollens, the punctuation of the upper surface being much more scanty and the sides 
and base of the thorax less completely rounded, so that the position of the hind angles 
can be detected. ‘The fimbrie of the elytra are long but scanty. In the male the 
hind tibie are not incrassate, but they are more curved than usual; the last ventral 
plate has a fovea at the hind margin, and on each side of this a polished transverse 
tubercular elevation. 
§10. Mesosternum simple; metasternum with the hind border of the middle coxe 
departing eaternally from the cotyloid cavity so as to mark off an axillary space. 
(Cf. Tab. IX. fig. 21.) (Species 36-41.) 
36. Carpophilus dimidiatus. 
Nitidula dimidiata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. i. p. 261. 
Carpophilus dimidiatus, Er. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. p. 259*; Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 379°; 
Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. vii. p. 277°. 
Hab. Fere ubique: Norra America !?*,—Mexico, Parras in Coahuila (Dr. Palmer), 
Tuxtla (Sallé), Jalapa, Cordova, San Juan Bautista in Tabasco( Hoge); British Honpuras, 
R. Hondo (Blancaneaua) ; GuateMaa (Sallé) ; Honpuras (Sad/é) ; Nrcaracua, Chontales 
(Janson).—SovutH AMERICA, Guiana’; ANTILLES 3, Cuba !. 
37. Carpophilus senilis, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 21 2, underside.) 
Parum elongatus, fusco-niger, breviter pubescens, antennis pedibusque rufis, illarum clava fusca; prothorace 
argute minus fortiter punctato, disco subnitido; elytris subtiliter, parce punctatis; metasterno utrinque 
linea elevata externe abrupte deflexa. 
Long. 3 millim. 
Hab. Muxtco, Jalapa, Cordova (Hége), Orizaba, Tuxtla (Sallé); British Honpvras, 
Belize (Blancaneaur); GuatemaLa, San Gerénimo, Chacoj (Champion); Nicaraeva, 
Chontales (Janson). | 
Thorax nearly straight at the sides, slightly contracted in front of the hind angles, 
which are very nearly rectangular. Metasternum very finely and sparingly punctate, 
very deeply impressed in front in the middle at its junction with the mesosternum, and 
with a raised line proceeding from each angle of the line of junction, extending out- 
wards behind the middle coxa, and at the outside of the coxa much bent backwards 
and joining the episternal suture. Male with the last ventral plate simple, quite 
finely and sparingly punctate. 
We have received many examples of this species, and figure the underside of a 
female example from Jalapa showing the axillary space. | 
C. succisus, Er., is rather similar to some of the examples of this species; but it has 
the coxal line strongly deflexed, as in C. verepacis. 
