306 | MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARIA. 
scutellum and one on each side; the sides margined with a narrow explanate portion, 
wider a little before the posterior angle and with a depression at the base within the 
posterior angle; the disk flat, and of a semilunate form in front; very finely, almost 
invisibly, punetate, except on the declinate sides, on which the punctuation is more 
perceptible. Seutellum (fig. 73) transversely subtriangular, depressed at the 
apex, nearly impunctate. Elytra flat, sides declinate, straight from the 
shoulder, slightly rounded and with a.strong margin, depressed at the suture, 
apex gently rounded both at sutural and exterior angles; punctate in rows (eight or 
nine), becoming occasionally punctate-striate, the interstices with a faint row of punc- 
tures irregularly placed. Abdomen scarcely punctate in the middle, more distinctly on 
the sides; fimbriz rather broad, with a less marked raised point than in its allies, and 
a large deep fovea on the dorsal segment near the fimbrial suture; on the ventral side 
with similar large deep foveæ corresponding to those on the upper side of the abdomen, 
more punctate (somewhat faintly rugosely) on the underside of the abdomen ; prothorax 
and metathorax shining and impunctate in the middle. Legs piceous. 
From Portuguese Senegal. In the collection of the Marquis de la Ferté. 
Fig. 73. 
(Subgenus LrPAROPEPLUS (Avrapóc, obese; mézAoc, robe).) 
Corpus convexum, haud pubescens. Thorax marginibus haud ciliatis. Labrum emarginatum. Ligula 
lobis brevibus. Abdomen convexum, haud postice cuneatum; segmentis omnibus (pygidio ex- 
cepto) longitudine fere zequalibus. 
Body convex, not pubescent. Thorax with the sides not ciliated. Labrum transverse, 
emarginate. Ligula with the lobes very short and little developed. Scutellum trans- 
verse, not quadrate. Abdomen convex, not wedge-shaped behind; all the segments 
nearly equal ih length, except the pygidium, which is longest. 
* Much punctate and not very shining. 
30. BRACHYPEPLUS CONVEXUS. 
Elongatus, angustus, convexus, nitidus, punctatus, parcissime et levissime bre- Fig. 74. 
viter testaceo pubescens, nigro-piceus ; elytris saturatioribus, subcostatis, me 
costis leviter seriatim punctatis, interstitiis fortiter striato-punctatis ; pedi- 
bus ferrugineis. Long. 12 lin., lat. 42; lin. 
Habitat in Bahia. 
Elongate, narrow, convex, shining, punctate, with a few scattered short testaceous 
hairs; nigro-piceous, with the elytra darker. Head thickly and deeply punctate, with a 
fovea on each side of the epistome, which is marked off behind by a semicircular line. 
Thorax subquadrate, broader than long, convex, with the sides much declinate, rounded, 
margined, all the angles rounded, the base margined and slightly bisinuate, strongly and 
thickly punctate, the punctures pitted, round, shallow, and raised in the middle. Scutellum 
transverse, pentagonal, the lateral angles rounded. Elytra parallel, rather longer than 
the thorax, the sides declinate and emarginate, with small but rather prominent shoulders, 
the apex obliquely truncate and the external apical angles rounded; deeply punctate- 
