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of its feet is very much larger and wider, and (instead of 

 being nearly simple) most deeply bilobed. 



GENUS BOROPHLGEUS. 



Wollaston, Traiiii. Ent. Soc, Lond., 4U (1873). 



Boropliloeus Murrayi, n. sj). 



B. angustulus, parallelus, nitidus, ater ; rostro (Lrevius- 

 culo, latiusculo, fere parallelo, so. postice paukilum 

 angustiore) profunde et rugose punctato, oculis subdendssis; 

 prothorace subtriangulari-quadrato, antice distincte con- 

 stricto, postice trisinuato, profunde, grossissime sed baud 

 dense subrequaliter punctato (punctis postice in medio sub- 

 majoribus) ; elytris grossissime punctato-sulcatis, inter- 

 stitiis coilvexis et minute punctulatis ; antennis tarsisque 

 rufo-ferrugineis. Subtus parce, grosse et profunde 

 punctatus ; abdominis segmentis Imo et 2do in medio 

 longitudinaliter impressis ; metasterno postice profunde 

 canaliculate. 



Fceni ? [vix species altera]. — rostro subgraciliore et in 

 medio transversim subgibboso ; prothorace subdensius 

 punctato, necnon (prajsertim postice) evidenter carinulato. 



Long. Corp. lin. circa 3. 



Habitat in sylvis proceris Californife, nuper detectus a 

 cl. A. Murray — cujus in honorem nomen specificum proposui. 



Ohs. — B. jpuncticolli, Woll., in Mexico degenti, afifinis, sed 

 differt corpore majore et grossius sculpturato, ocuKs minus 

 prominentibus, fronte multo minutius foveolata, scutello 

 majore, interstitiis evidenter punctulatis, necnon antennis 

 tarsisque conspicue pallidioribus. Cossono crenato, Horn, 

 e California et Oregon, simillimus, et forsan ejus varietas 

 topographica ; sed paululum major, rostro subbreviore, 

 antice vix minus dilatato, punctis mediis ad basin pro- 

 thoracis minus longitudinaliter dispositis, scutello vix 

 magis rotundato, interstitiis sub-evidentius punctulatis, 

 tibiisque nigrescentioribus. 



The present BorophUmts has lately been communicated 

 by Andrew Murray, Esq., by whom it was detected, only 

 a few months ago, in the forests of California ; and 1 have 

 much pleasure in dedicating the species to its captor — 

 whose interesting explorations across tlie Atlantic have 



