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thickly punctured, red, with a narrow edging of black at the base, and a wider one at 
the apex, both gradually passing from black into red; seen from above, the sides seem 
straight and parallel, but looked at from the side are seen to be gently rounded, and 
with their margins clear piceous red, deeply canaliculated,: the furrow widest in the 
middle; apex of each elytron truncate obliquely from the suture backwards, exterior — 
apical angles rounded, sutural obtuse. Breast and abdomen thickly punctured; seg- 
ments of abdomen griseo-pubescent, the margins of the segments translucent and rufes- 
cent. Legs red. 
Erichson in his Monograph in Germ. Zeitschr. treats C. rubripennis as possibly distinct 
from his C. castanopterus, because Heer in his description of the thorax gives as a cha- 
racter * margine laterali longitudinaliter obsolete impresso," which he could not find 
in his specimen (nor can I in mine) ; but in his * Insekten Deutschlands,’ published sub- 
sequently, he unites them. 
Found in Austria, Sicily, Sardinia, Italy, &c., but very rare. Through the kindness of 
Dr. Schaum of Berlin I have been enabled to place a specimen in the British Museum. 
2. CARPOPHILUS HUMERALIS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 255 (1843). 
Nitidula humeralis, Fab. Syst. El. i. 354. 31 (1792). 
Ips humeralis, Dej. Cat. p. 134 (1837). 
Brachypterus picinus, Bohem. Ins. Caffr. i. 560 (1848). 
Parum latus, subquadratus, parum convexus, nigro-piceus, punctatus, parcissime pubes- 
cens, fere glaber, nitidus, durus; mandibulis palpisque rufo-ferrugineis, antennis 
pedibusque rufo-testaceis; capite prothoraceque erebre mediocriter punctatis, hoc 
utrinque ante basin leviter impresso; elytris dilutioribus, sat erebre mediocriter 
punetatis, singulis basi ad callum humeralem interdum macula obsoleta ferruginea. 
Long. 14$ lin., lat. 2 lin. 
Var. A. Elytris macula humerali absente. 
Var. B. Glaber, minus fortiter punctatus; elytris totis castaneis. 
Habitat in Madagascaria, Caffraria, India orientali, insula Mauritia, China, Java, etc. 
Somewhat convex, subquadrate, rather broad, nigro-piceous, shining, punctate, very 
sparingly pubescent; texture hard. Head slightly convex, thickly punctate ; the man- 
dibles on the inner side and the palpi rufo-ferruginous. Antenne short, rufo-testaceous, 
club darker, sparingly pubescent. Thorax shorter than broad, thickly punctate, slightly 
pubescent on the sides, lightly impressed transversely on each side before the base; in 
front rather deeply rounded,-emarginate, the anterior angles obtuse; the sides gently 
rounded, widened in the middle, with the margins slenderly reflexed, very little narrowed 
behind, posterior angles obtuse, base slightly curved. Scutellum short, broad, rounded at 
the apex, very finely punctate. Elytra scarcely a half longer than the thorax, not broader 
than its base, somewhat convex, rather thickly punctate, usually marked near the 
shoulders with an indeterminate, obsolete ferruginous spot, shoulders not very prominent, 
sides somewhat widened in the middle, the apex of each elytron truncate obliquely back- 
wards from the suture, sutural apical angles obtuse, exterior apical angles rounded. 
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