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impression on each side between the eyes, and a short faint longitudinal line on the 
vertex. The thorax has its sides rounded and not sinuate, the posterior angles obtuse, 
rounded, and expanded. Scutellum rather large. Elytra with prominent shoulders, with 
. the sides gently rounded and margined, the apex obliquely truncate. Pygidium and 
posterior angles of the penultimate segment alone exposed. Antenne and legs red. 
From California. Communicated to me by M. l'Abbé de Marseuil. 
12. BRACHYPTERUS GLOBULARIUS (Reiche). 
Piceus, subseneus, nitidus, confertim punctatus, parce griseo pubescens; thorace coleo- 
pteris paulo angustiore, lateribus rotundatis, haud sinuatis, explanatis, disco convexo ; 
elytris fortiter, disco lzevius punctatis, apice singulis rotundatim truncatis; antennis, 
ore pedibusque rufo-piceis. Long. $ lin., lat. 3 lin. 
Habitat in America boreali; Mexico ; Connecticut, &c. 
Closely allied to B. Urtice. Piceous, with a slight brassy lustre, shining, thickly 
punctured, sparingly clothed with griseous pubescence. Thorax slightly narrower than 
the elytra, with the sides rounded, not sinuate, expanded, the disk abruptly convex from 
the expanded part, with a slight impression on each side of the middle, declining towards 
the base, with the anterior angles nearly right-angled and the posterior rounded. The 
scutellum less punctate. The elytra thickly punctured, but the disk less so, the sides 
gently rounded, and the apex of each elytron truncate and rounded. The mouth, an- 
tenn:e, and legs rufo-piceous. 
Specimens from Connecticut and Mexico are in the Marquis de Laferté's collection. 
18. BRACHYPTERUS FLAVIPES. 
Niger, confertissime punctatus, mediocriter cinereo pubescens; antennis pedibusque 
flavis; prothorace antice posticeque rotundato. Long. 1 lin., lat. 3 lin. 
Habitat in Brasilia. 
Oblong, convex, black, thickly and rather deeply punctate, clothed with a moderate 
cinereous pubescence. Antennz short, not much longer than the head, yellow. Pro- 
thorax arched and rounded both at the anterior and posterior angles, narrowest in front, 
at its broadest part nearly but not quite so broad as the elytra. Scutellum large, truncate, 
nearly quadrangular. Elytra not much longer than the thorax. The segments of the 
abdomen large; the penultimate as long as the last. All the legs yellow. 
Collected near Rio Janeiro by the Rev. Hamlet Clark, who has been kind enough to 
sacrifice his unique specimen to me, in order that it may be preserved in the British 
Museum. 
14. BRACHYPTERUS TESTACEUS. 
Boheman, ا‎ Svenska Fregatten *Eugenies? Resa omkring Jorden (Voyage of the Royal Swedish 
Frigate * Eugenie,’ made in the years 1851-1853), p. 39 (1857-58). 
Flavo-testaceus, parum nitidus, crebre et breviter punctulatus, parce cinereo pubescens ; 
oculis nigris ; thorace lateribus fere parallelis, leviter rotundatis, angulis rotundatis ; 
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