294 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
Section I. Ligula with the membranous lobes rounded. 
8. BRACHYPEPLUS DEPRESSUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 247 (1843). 
Niger, depressus, subopacus, tibiis tarsisque ferrugineis; prothorace lateribus Fig. 53. 
haud sinuatis, postea reflexis; elytris striatis, interstitiis seriatim pune- 
tatis. Long. 2 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Var. Elytris interdum puncto humerali obsoletissime testaceo. 
Habitat in Caffraria. 
Depressed, somewhat opaque, black, faintly nigro-pubescent. Antenne ferruginous, 
with the club piceous. Head faintly punctulate, lightly bifoveolate in front; mouth 
piceous. Thorax as broad as the elytra, rather faintly rugulosely punctate, shorter by a 
half than its breadth, narrowed in front; apex emarginate; anterior angles obtusely 
rounded; sides reflexed narrowly in front, more widely towards the posterior angles, 
which are nearly right angles and slightly looking back; base bisinuate. Scutellum 
transverse, griseo-pubescent. Elytra a little longer than the thorax, subcostate, punctate- 
striate, the interstices punctate in rows, subrugulose, irregularly depressed ; a depression 
beside the scutellum, one within the shoulder, an oblique large slope behind the shoulder, 
sometimes with a testaceous spot on the shoulder, griseo-pubescent at the base; apex 
broadly rounded at the exterior angles; sutural apical angle a right angle. Abdomen 
thickly and lightly punctate; fimbric broad, with the inner margin curved, depressed, 
of nearly equal breadth behind and before, except on the pygidium. Body below faintly 
griseo-pubescent. Legs piceous, the tibice and tarsi ferruginous. 
From the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and other parts of South Africa. 
9. BRACHYPEPLUS DEYROLLEI. 
B. depresso valde affinis; paulo minor, prothorace minus transverso, lateribus postice 
rectioribus ; niger, elytris ad basin piceo-nigris et ad suturam paulo ferrugineo-piceis, 
minus fortiter costatis et punctatis. Long. 1} lin. 
Habitat in Guinea. 
Nearly allied to B. depressus; rather smaller; the thorax not so transverse, «and with. 
its sides more parallel posteriorly. Black. Elytra nigro-piceous at the base and some- 
what ferrugineo-piceous at the suture; not so deeply punctate nor so much costate as in 
B. depressus. 
From the coast of Guinea. I have seen only a single example, which is in the collec- 
tion of M. Deyrolle at Paris. | 
10. BRACHYPEPLUS CAFFER. 
Boheman, Ins. Caffr. i. 561 (1848). 
Oblongus, depressus, piceus, subnitidus, tenuiter cinereo pubescens; labro, Fig.94 
antennis (clava excepta), tibiis tarsisque rufo-piceis; prothorace con- 
fertim punctulato ; elytris seriatim parum profunde punctatis, interstitiis 
leviter carinatis. Long. 2 lin., lat. 2 lin. 
- Habitat in regione fluminis Limpoponis in Africa australi. 
