224 cLAviconxiA. [Carpoph&tu. 



I. Elytra spotted with yellow. 



i. Thorax narrowed in front and widened behind ; elytra 



scarcely longer than thorax C. HEMIPTEKUS, L. 



ii. Thorax narrowed in front and behind; elytra twice as 

 long as thorax C- SEXPTTSTTTLATUS, F. 



II. Elytra without spots C. MUTILATUS, JEr. 



C. hemipterus, L. (jlexuosus, Payk. ; pidus, Heer). Rather stoutly 

 built, short and convex, with rather thick pubescence, black or pitchy- 

 Muck, somewhat dull, elytra with a yellow spot at shoulder, and another 

 at apex which sometimes wholly, sometimes partially, covers their 

 apical half ; head small, thickly punctured ; thorax nan-owed in front, 

 as broad at base as elytra, thickly punctured, with all the angles rounded; 

 scutellum rather large, punctured; elytra scarcely longer than thorax, 

 thickly, and in the middle almost rugosely, punctured ; legs red. L. 

 2-3 mm. 



In sugar, preserved figs and other dried fruits, grain, and other provisions; a 

 cosmopolitan species that has been spread by commerce over a great portion of the 

 world; it has occurred in many of our large towns; Dr. Power, however, informed 

 me that Turner once brought him four specimens alive, which he had taken with 

 Engis humeralis in Cossus burrows in Dulwich Wood ; Dr. Power had himself taken 

 Silvanus, Trogosita, and other species usually considered as introduced and not 

 indigenous, under bark in the open country, but believed that all of them had 

 probably wandered from some other locality. 



(C. sexpustulatus, F. (abbreviatns, Panz.). Long and flat, narrow, 

 rather shiny, very sparingly pubescent ; colour reddish-brown ; elytra 

 parallel -sided, with two plain impressions on each, and three yellowish 

 spots, one at shoulder, which is often obscure, a more distinct one in 

 middle, and a third at apex, usually obscure, sometimes almost invisible ; 

 the thorax is a little narrower than the elytra, and is rounded at the 

 sides and narrowed in front and behind, so that it appears to be sub- 

 orbicular ; the antennae are reddish-brown with blackish club, and the 

 legs are red. L. 2-3 mm. 



In dried fruits, &c. ; only two or three British examples are known, and these are 

 undoubtedly importations. 



C. nmtilatus, Er. (hemipterus, I\, nee L.). Considerably narrower 

 in proportion than C. hemipterus, L.,but broader than C. sexpustnlatus ; 

 thorax quadrate, hardly broader at base than at apex, sides very slightly 

 rounded ; elytra not much longer than thorax ; head reddish, thorax 

 and abdomen darker, pitchy-red, or blackish ; elytra rufescent, without 

 spots, apical angles and region round scutellum more or less broadly 

 darker ; legs red. L. 2-2| mm. 



Taken in considerable numbers by the late Mr. T. R. Hardy at the bottom of old 

 wheat-stacks in the neighbourhood of Manchester, and also sparingly, as he informed 

 mo, in Cossus burrows in Sherwood Forest ; in Dr. Power's collection are two speci- 

 mens which were found in corn which had probably been imported. 



