MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 315 
rupted line; shoulders not prominent, rectangular, rounded, sides slightly margined ; 
apex scarcely obliquely truncate, exterior apical angles rounded, sutural apical angles 
right-angled. Abdomen acicularly shagreened, with a scattered griseous stiff pubescence 
issuing from punctures (which seem as if made from behind forwards) ; the segments with 
a darker chestnut band near the margin, the margin itself thin, testaceous, and pubescent ; 
dorsal exposed portion of the abdomen about two-thirds of the length of the thorax longer 
than the elytra. Underside with the breast piceo-testaceous. Legs testaceous. 
This seems to come near Laporte's C. filiformis in size and form. It differs from his 
short description, however, in colour and some other points. 
From Madagascar. A single specimen in the collection of the Marquis de la Ferté. 
6. CILLEUS VERMIS. 
Parvus, linearis, elongatus, parallelus, depressus, piceo-testaceus, mollis, punc- Fig. 79. 
tatus et valde pubescens; thorace paulo latitudine longiore; elytris pube 
lineatim vestitis, haud vel vix punctatis. Long. 14 lin., lat. 3 lin. a 
Habitat in Madagascaria. 
Small, narrow, linear, elongate, slender, depressed, parallel, piceo-testaceous, punctate, 
and very pubescent. With a good lens the acicular chitinous texture may be seen on 
the thorax, but not so marked as on the abdomen of C. longipennis. Head darker, very 
pubescent. "Thorax nearly quadrangular, sides parallel, almost as broad as long, scarcely 
perceptibly margined; angles nearly right-angled, the points rounded; very pubescent, 
with scattered, longish, shallow punctures. Scutellum not large. Elytra a little more 
than a half longer than the thorax, very pubescent, the pubescence lying in rows; punc- 
tures not perceptible; apex squarely truncate ; exterior apical angles rounded, a little 
darker towards the apex. Abdomen with the dorsal exposed part half the length of the 
body, paler than the rest, more finely pubescent, and without punetures. Underside pale. 
Legs pale testaceous. 
From Madagascar. A single specimen in the collection of the Marquis de la Ferté. 
Note.—The three following species are described by Laporte as belonging to this genus ; 
but as his descriptions are insufficient to identify them; and as it is even doubtful whether 
they really do belong to the genus as now defined (Laporte having supposed it to belong 
to the Omalide, a group of the Staphylinide), and as, moreover, I have no traditional 
knowledge of the species he had in view, I merely give a copy of his descriptions, leaving 
it to the reader to try and make them out for himself. 
7. CILLÆUS SUTURALIS. 
Laporte, Etud. Ent. 133 (1835). 
* Niger, punctatus; elytris flavis, sutura apiceque nigris, leviter punetato-striatis; seg- 
mentis abdominis postice pedibusque testaceo-brunneis. Long. 2 lin., lat. 3 lin. 
* Habitat in Madagascaria." 
Black, punctate, with the elytra yellow, the suture and the apex black, lightly punc- 
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