352 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARIA. 
Oblong, subdepressed, punctate, somewhat shining, sparingly testaceo-pubescent, 
chestnut-brown. Head with a very deep fovea on each side, slightly connected together 
behind the epistome, which is prominent. Thorax piceous chestnut, broader than long, 
with the disk flat and depressed, faintly transversely impressed, the anterior angles 
nearly right angles, with the point rounded, the posterior angles obliquely cut off and 
the points rounded, base straight, truncate; very finely punctate and more shining than 
the elytra and scutellum. Scutellum rounded, punctate. Elytra nearly a half longer 
than the thorax, broader at the base than the base of the thorax, but scarcely broader 
than its sides, rather thickly punctate, testaceo-rufous, darker near the scutellum and 
base, the shoulders prominent and paler in colour, another raised larger prominence near 
the apex of the scutellum, the suture darker in colour, sides sharply rounded immedi- 
ately behind the shoulder, slightly so afterwards, apex of each elytron obliquely truncate. 
Abdomen nigro-piceous, pubescent, and punctate. Legs castaneo-piceous. 
Like C. corticinus in colour, but of a firmer consistency, and readily distinguished from 
it by the posterior angles of the thorax being obliquely cut off, which is not the case 
with C. corticinus. It is a question whether it has not more natural affinity with the 
section Henomorphus, in which the elytra are wider at the base than the thorax, than 
with this. It may find a place in either; and in the dichotomous Table of the species 
given at the end of this genus I have placed it in that section. The coloration on the 
elytra near the scutellum sometimes varies into two spots darker than the rest. 
From Nicaragua in Mexico. Collected by M. Sallé. 
18. CARPOPHILUS FULVIPES. 
Motsch. Etud. Ent. vii. 42 (1858). 
C. fusculus, Motsch. Etud. Ent. vii. 42 (1858). 
Oblongus, depressus, postice attenuatus, subtiliter granulatim punctatus, subnitidus, 
niger vel fusco-niger, ore pedibusque fulvo-testaceis. Long. 14-14 lin., lat. 1-3 lin. 
Habitat in Taprobana. 
Oblong, depressed, narrowed behind, finely punctate, slightly shagreened, somewhat 
shining, black or blackish brown. Head rounded, with a broad impression on each 
side in front, finely and equally punctate. Antenne black. Mouth fulvo-testaceous. 
Thorax transverse, slightly convex, flattish on the disk, on which is a longitudinal smooth 
line in front of the scutellum ; sides gently rounded, declinate towards the anterior angles, 
which are obtuse; apex scarcely emarginate; posterior angles almost right angles, very 
slightly obtuse, and with the margin very slightly reflexed ; base truncate, slightly bi- 
sinuate. Scutellum triangular, with a slightly raised smooth space on each side, punctate 
in the middle. Elytra depressed, of the breadth of the thorax, quadrate, slightly nar- 
rowed behind, impressed behind the scutellum, punctate; sides declinate and slightly 
rounded, margined and canaliculate; apex obliquely truncate; exterior apical angles 
rounded, sutural obtuse. Abdomen attenuate, finely punctate. Legs fulvo-testaceous. 
. M. de Motschulsky gives this as one of the types of the subgenus Eenomorphus, which 
he proposes for the reception of those species which are like C. sexpustulatus. I admit 
that such a subdivision is warranted; but this species does not belong to it. It has not 
