MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 325. 
subglobose, the third broad, subcylindrical, widest at the apex—the three together having 
a considerable resemblance to the stalk and head of a Scotch thistle. Mentum broad, 
deeply emarginate, the sides of the emargination irregularly indented. Prothorax with 
the sides and all the angles rounded, sides margined ; apex slightly emarginate, base not 
sinuate. Scutellum transverse, rounded on the posterior side. Elytra striate, narrower 
behind than before, truncate; sides margined. Abdomen with the first two segments 
shorter than those which follow ; pygidium longest; three segments exposed above, and 
bearing moderately broad fimbriz, which are subparallel, slightly convexly sinuate on 
the inner side; there is an additional minute anal appendage in the males (?). Legs 
stout; tibize with only a small, short trace of the channel for the reception of the tarsi 
which occurs in the Brachypepli ; tarsi moderately dilated. 
This genus forms the passage between the Brachypepli and Conotelus. It has the struc- 
tural characters and size of the former, with a tendency to the form of the latter. The 
differences between it and the normal characters of Brachypeplus are the following. In 
Brachypeplus the form of the body is oblong, narrow, parallel, usually flat and depressed. 
In this genus the body is somewhat convex, and begins to diminish from the thorax 
backwards, giving it a long cuneiform shape like that of Conotelus. The texture in Bra- 
chypeplus is generally somewhat flexible, rather soft, subrugose, and pubescent. In Hale- 
popeplus it is hard, shining, and without pubescence. The thorax in the former has the 
posterior angles usually more or less right-angled, the base straight and applied to the 
elytra. In Halepopeplus the base and posterior angles are rounded. The prosternum is 
prominent and projecting backwards, almost entirely covering the mesosternum, instead 
of being narrow and flat. The fimbrize of the abdomen are more parallel. The channel 
on the outside of the apex of the tibize, which is so marked in the Brachypepli, has here 
almost disappeared. 
Position and Affinities—Bracuyeerius. HALEPOPEPLUS. Conore.us. 
CAMPSOPYGA. 
1. HALEPOPEPLUS BIPUSTULATUS. 
Elongatus, nitidus, leviter punctatus, niger, capite antice, antennis, maxillis, ^ Fig. 89. 
elytris singulis macula apicali rubris; elytris punctato-striatis. Long. 
4 lin., lat. 14 lin. | apes 
Habitat apud flumina Amazonum. 
Elongate, faintly punctate, shining, black, with a curved dull-red band across the 
head behind the clypeus; the anterior margin of the clypeus dull red, the antennz and 
maxillz testaceous red, and a patch on the elytra near the apex red. Head finely and 
closely punctate; two impressions, one on each side of the middle, and almost united ; 
the dull-red band in front of the head interrupted by a narrow black line in the middle. 
Thorax one-fourth broader than long, subquadrate, smooth, and convex, with all the 
angles broadly rounded, very finely and equally punctate all over, feebly emarginate in 
front ; sides, front, and base margined. Scutellum transverse, subpentangular, the posterior 
angles rounded. Elytra one-fourth longer than the thorax, a very little narrower behind 
than at the base; sides abruptly declinate, deeply margined, slightly sinuate and hollowed 
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