344 MR. A. MURRAY’S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
Body below nigro-piceous, somewhat shining, faintly thickly punctate. Legs rufo-testa- 
ceous, obsoletely punctulate, sparingly pubescent. 
From Madagascar, Mauritius, Natal, Caffraria, East Indies, Java, and China. 
3. CARPOPHILUS FOVEICOLLIS. 
Valde affinis C. humerali Fab., forsan varietas ejus; major, magis depressus, magis 
punctatus; thorace fovea grandi prope angulos posticos, angulis anticis et interdum 
lateribus ferrugineis, elytris basi intus humeros macula ferruginea majore. Long. 
2 lin., lat. 11 lin. 
Habitat in Macassar, in Pulo Penang et in Celebes. 
Very nearly allied to C. humeralis. It is usually larger than that species. It is not 
so convex, and has a squarer and more massive appearance; the head is proportionally 
not quite so broad. "The punctuation throughout is not only coarser, but more frequent 
and close. The slight depression on the thorax near each of the posterior angles in 
C. humeralis is here a deep, somewhat transverse, coarsely punctate fovea. The elytra 
are not so convex, are a little flatter on the surface, and have a depression behind the 
shoulder. The anterior angles of the thorax, and sometimes also the posterior angles, 
are ferruginous; sometimes also the whole of the sides. The ferruginous spot at the 
base of the elytra next the shoulder in C. humeralis is larger, and extends from the 
shoulder to the scutellum, and the elytra have sometimes the whole disk rufo-ferruginous 
or rufo-testaceous ; when the insect is fresh and unrubbed there is a fine, sparing, testa- 
ceous silky pubescence upon the elytra. Sometimes the insect is wholly black, without 
any part ferruginous at all, except the legs. 
All these differences, it will be seen, are merely differences in degree, and if looked at 
very strictly would, I think, prevent this being regarded as more than a climatal variety. 
As, however, it looks distinct, it will probably be practically more serviceable to the 
entomologist who may not be acquainted with it, if I give it a place as a distinct species, 
which I do, however, only provisionally and with this explanation. | 
From Macassar and Pulo Penang, Celebes. Collected by Mr. Wallace. 
4. CARPOPHILUS ADUMBRATUS. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 5.) 
Sat latus, subdepressus, subnitidus, fere glaber, textura dura, punctatus; testaceus, capite, 
thoracis disco, elytris humeris et apice, et corpore subtus plus minusve obscure fuscis 
vel nigris. Long. 21 lin., lat. 14 lin. 
Var. C. consprcuus. Locis adumbratis vivide nigris. 
Habitat in China boreali. 
Broad, subdepressed, rather shining, nearly glabrous, with a hard texture, punctate ; tes- 
taceous, with the head, the disk of the thorax, the shoulders and apex of the elytra, and the 
underside more or less obscurely fuscous or black. Head thickly punctate, with a some- 
what curved impression in front. Antenne testaceous, with the club obscure. Thorax 
transverse, broader than long, sparsely punctate, more thickly so on the disk, narrower 
in front, the sides slightly rounded, with a small impression a little before, and another, 
