350 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
the disk ; sides deeply margined, the margination not narrowest in the middle, widest and 
deepest at the posterior angles; anterior angles rounded, posterior angles obtuse. Scu- 
tellum searcely punctate. Elytra about as wide as the thorax, a half longer, the sides 
subparallel, rather strongly and sparsely punctate; apex declinate, and each elytron 
obliquely truncate; apex and suture sometimes becoming gradually blackish. Abdomen 
with its segments pubescent. Posterior tibize dilated, but not parallelly. 
Allied to C. antiquus. Smaller, more depressed; thorax not wider than the elytra, and 
more parallel than in that species. The colour is usually wholly bright ferruginous, 
although in some specimens it is gradually darker towards the apex and suture. The 
posterior tibiz, although dilated at the apex, have not the abrupt, flat, parallel dilatation 
from its middle which there is in C. antiquus. 
From Mexico. Collected by M, Sallé. 
14. CARPOPHILUS SUCCISUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 259 (1843). 
C. pinguis (Mus. Berol.). 
C. Catharinensis (Deyr.). 
Subdepressus, niger, subnitidus, tenuissime pubescens; pedibus rufo-testaceis; elytris 
fuscis, parce subtiliterque punctatis, lateribus subtilissime rugulosis. Long. 1-1j 
lin., lat. 3 lin. 
Habitat in Columbia. 
Short, broad and parallel, oblong, subdepressed, above nigro-piceous, fusco-piceous, or 
chestnut, somewhat shining, texture hard, rather deeply punctate, slenderly clothed with 
a very short and fine pubescence. Antenne ferruginous, with the club piceous. Mouth 
rufo-piceous. Head closely punctate, lightly foveolate on each side in front. Thorax of 
the breadth of the elytra, subquadrate, very slightly narrowed in front, punctate, with the 
disk smoother, the base as well as the sides margined, the sides a little rounded, reflexed ; 
anterior angles declinate, somewhat rounded and obtuse; posterior angles obtuse. 
Scutellum smooth, very faintly punctulate at the base. Elytra a half longer than the 
thorax, fuscous, more thickly but more faintly punctate than the thorax, acutely margined 
on the sides, very faintly rugulose towards the sides. Abdomen densely punctate, with 
the segments margined with piceous. Body below piceous. Legs rufo-testaceous. 
The texture of this species is softer than that of the preceding, and approaches that 
of C. sezpustulatus. It has some resemblance to small specimens of C. marginellus, but, 
besides various other differences, it is more quadrate in form, and has not the appearance 
of metathoracic axillary pieces which that species possesses. The thorax has a harder 
and more shining appearance than the elytra; and these have a somewhat leathery and 
dull appearance, besides being softer. Erichson says it is similar in appearance to 
C. dimidiatus; but this is only a superficial resemblance. Its thorax is shining and with 
only a few unobtrusive scattered hairs, in place of being dull and thickly punctate and 
with an almost villose pubescence. 
From South America. Its chief metropolis seems to be Columbia, but it extends 
considerably further both to the south and to the north. 
