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Section II. Texture moderately soft and slightly shining. Body depressed. Elytra not twice as long 
as the thorax, moderate in size*. 
15. CARPOPHILUS CORTIOINUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 263 (1843). 
Oblongus, subdepressus, subtiliter punctatus, testaceus, piceus vel magis minusve brun- 
neus; thorace elytrisque fortius marginatis, elytris ad basin latioribus. Long. 1} lin., 
lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in America boreali. 
Oblong, subdepressed, testaceous, piceous, or chestnut, very little shining, faintly and 
slenderly griseo-pubescent. Antennz with the club fuscous. Head faintly punctate, 
subimpressed on each side in front. "Thorax of the breadth of the elytra, scarcely nar- 
rower in front, emarginate at the apex, subsinuate on each side of the base, a little 
rounded at the sides, all the angles sub-right-angles; rather densely punctate, with the 
disk depressed, the lateral margin distinct and reflexed. Scutellum thickly and faintly 
punctate. Elytra oblong, a half longer than the thorax, faintly but more densely punc- 
tate than the thorax, with the lateral margin very distinct, reflexed. Abdomen faintly 
punetate, the pygidium longitudinally impressed. 
This species has considerable relation to the genus Epwrea. Not only does its general 
appearance suggest its connexion with it, but its texture is that of an .Epurea, and it 
undoubtedly is one of the links which connect Carpophilus with that genus. 
From North America. 
16. CARPOPHILUS COMPRESSUS. 
C. corticino affinis; minor, magis depressus, magis opacus, thorace parum breviore, 
lateribus minus rotundatis et levius marginatis ; eseteris ut in C. corticino. Long. 
+ lin., lat. 4 lin. 
Habitat in Rio Janeiro. 
Very closely allied to C. corticinus. A larger series of specimens (I have only seen 
one) may show that they are the same species. It is a good deal (nearly a third) smaller 
than C. corticinus, rather more depressed, more opaque, more pubescent; the thorax 
seems a little shorter or more transverse, its sides are somewhat straighter, the margins 
not so well marked. The elytra seem not quite so much attenuated behind. In other 
respects there is little or no difference between it and C. corticinus. 
From Rio Janeiro. Collected by the Rey. Hamlet Clark. 
El. CARPOPHILUS LIGNEUS. 
Oblongus, subdepressus, punctatus, parce testaceo pubescens, castaneo-brunneus ; elytris 
testaceo-rufis, circa scutellum saturatioribus ; abdomine nigro-piceo; antennis pedi- 
busque castaneo-piceis. Long. 13 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Mexico. 
* This section is related to that immediately preceding on the one hand, and to the section Ecnomorphus on the 
other, but I have separated it from the latter in order to form the transition to the following Sections III., IV., &c. _ 
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