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above the base of the antenna. Thorax nearly quadrate, all the angles, apex, and sides 
rounded; base truncate, bisinuate; a slight depression immediately behind and along the 
apex, and two transverse, slight, broad depressions running across, the one a little before 
the middle, and the other a little before the base. Scutellum wholly punctate. Elytra 
with a slight depression around the seutellar region, and another still more slight behind 
it; shoulders square; sides seen from above straight, but from the sides rounded; the 
apex of each elytron truncate obliquely from the suture outwards and backwards, exterior 
apical angles broadly rounded, sutural angles obtuse. Underside punctate. The hairs 
on the inner side of the expansion of the tibiz bright fulvous. 
This singular insect, although a perfect Nitidularian and closely allied to Carpophilus, 
is interesting from its evident tendency to a relationship with Bostrichus and Lucanus. 
The fulvous-red hairy labrum and the large, coarse, geniculated mandibles of these 
families are here reproduced. We know nothing of its habits or mode of life, but it 
needs no ghost to tell us that, like the Lucanide and Bostrichide whose mandibles and 
labrum it respectively bears, it is à Xylophagous insect. 
A single specimen was collected by Mr. Wallace in the island of Morty, near Gilolo. 
It is now in the British Museum. 
Genus CARPOPHILUS, Leach. 
Steph. Illustr. Brit. Ent. iii. 50 (1830). 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 254 (1843). 
Sturm, Deutschl. Ins. xv. 33, taf. 292 (1844). 
Erichs. Naturg. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 134 (1848). 
Lacord.- Hist. des Ins. Coléopt. ii. 295 (1854). 
Caput sulcis antennariis; epistomate porrecto. Labrum bilobum. Abdomen fimbriis vix perspicuis; 
segmentis duobus vel tribus expositis, plerumque secundo tertioque brevissimis; maris segmentulo 
anali ventrali auctum. 
A numerous genus of insects, scattered over the whole world. Some of the species are 
eosmopolitan, having probably been introduced into distant countries by the agency of 
man. They are found in flowers, under the bark of trees, and in decayed fruits. 
Their form is for the most part short, broad, and more or less depressed. Head broad. 
Eyes variable in size. Epistome raised and projecting; antennal grooves short and 
convergent. Antenn:e a little longer than the head, the first article enlarged or widened 
on the outside; second cylindrical, thicker and a little shorter than the third ; fourth to 
eighth short; ninth to eleventh forming a large club more or less rounded or oval. 
Labrum bilobed, the lobes rounded. Mandibles broad, their tip usually preceded by a 
small tooth on the inner side. Lobes of the maxille rather broad, ciliated at the apex 
and on the inner side. Maxillary palpi with the last article conical and as long as all 
the rest together. Labial palpi with the last article a little widened and truncated at the 
apex. Ligula entire, its angles with a membranous wing, which is slightly faleate, rounded 
at the end, and ciliated on the inner or anterior side. Mentum transverse, broadly 
emarginate in front. Prothorax transversal or subquadrate, feebly emarginate in front, 
with the sides margined, in most species as broad as the elytra and bisinuate behind. 
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