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“ Elongate, depressed, piceous, shining, finely pubescent. Antenne rufous, with a 
dusky club. Thorax short, the sides rounded, rather thickly punctate. Elytra twice 
as long as the thorax, more strongly margined, punctulate, with a large testaceous-red 
triangular patch on each side. Abdomen with the last three segments exposed, the 
fourth ségment a little longer. Legs rufous.” 
Dr. Leconte mentions that this species precisely resembles in colour and sculpture his 
C. discoideus, but differs in the abdomen being much longer, and in having three seg- 
ments exposed instead of only two. Dr. Leconte suggests that it may be the female of 
that species. I have not seen it, and have merely reproduced his description. If it has 
an affinity to C. discoideus, it can have little to the other species of this subgenus. 
From Fort Tejon, Nebraska, in California, &c. 
(Subgenus CARPOPHILUS proper.) 
Caput oculis modicis. Abdomen segmentis duobus ultimis solum expositis et secundo et tertio caeteris 
distincte brevioribus. 
This subgenus embraces a large number of species, many of which differ considerably 
in form from each other, and I have broken it up into corresponding sections; but all have 
the eyes moderate and only the last two segments of the abdomen exposed, and the 
second and third segment much shorter than the other segments. 
Section I. Texture hard, shining, and nearly glabrous. 
9. CARPOPHILUS MARGINELLUS. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 1.) 
Motsch. Etudes Ent. vii. 40 (1858). 
Oblongo-ovatus, parum convexus, nitidus, fere glaber, durus, punetatus, tenuiter griseo 
pubescens, piceo-ferrugineus, disco thoracis et singulorum elytrorum gradatim 
nigris. Long. 1} lin., lat. 3 lin. 
Habitat in India orientali, Taprobana, China, &c. 
Oblong-ovate, somewhat convex, shining, almost glabrous, hard in texture, feebly 
griseo-pubescent, punctate, piceo-ferruginous, the disk of the thorax and of the elytra 
becoming gradually black. Head bifoveolate in front, punctate. Thorax with the sides 
nearly straight for the posterior two-thirds of their length, then turned-in in front, apex 
emarginate, anterior angles declinate, nearly right angles, posterior angles slightly obtuse, 
sides and base slightly margined, base truncate; a rather deep punctate impression on 
each side near the posterior angles, the rest of the thorax rather thickly but faintly 
punctate. Scutellum transverse, pentangular, the base punctate, the apex smooth. 
Elytra of the breadth of the thorax and continuous with it, punctate; sides parallel and 
straight when seen from above, seen from the sides inflexed, slightly rounded and mar- 
. gined; base straight, with the'humeral angles sharply rectangular; the shoulders close 
to the side, and within them a slight longitudinal impression ; apex obliquely truncate ; 
exterior apical angles rounded. Underside ferruginous, paler than the upper side. 
Abdomen slightly punctate. There is an appearance of broad faintly-marked axillary 
pieces on the metathorax of this species, but I regard this only as a resemblance caused 
