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the characters which he assigns to that section, but belongs to the section of normal 
Carpophili, such as C. hemipterus, &c. He figures and describes the anterior tarsi as 
bearing below long claviform hairs. It does not quite appear whether in this he refers to 
both sexes or only to the male. He has been speaking previously of the male, and, 
although the sentence is separated by a semicolon, he may still refer to it. If he refers 
to both sexes, then I can assure him he is mistaken. I have examined, under high 
powers, the tarsi of a female which he was kind enough to present to me, and can say 
with perfect confidence that the hairs under its anterior tarsi in no respect differ from 
the usual form of hairs. The appearance he has figured is so unusual that I cannot help 
thinking that he has been deceived by some adhesion of gum or other extraneous body. 
In like manner, his characters drawn from the club of the antennæ are due to an acci- 
dental displacement of the articles from their proper position. (See my remarks upon 
the characters of the section Henomorphus, posted.) j 
M. de Motschulsky has also briefly noticed another species which he considers closely 
allied to this, and perhaps only a variety. I have notseenit; butas the only characters 
he gives to distinguish it from C. fulvipes are that it is smaller, browner, and with the 
posterior angles of the thorax slightly reflexed—this last being a character which is also 
found in C. fulvipes,—I have been unable to see any ground for constituting it even a 
variety. Still I should have done so, in deference to the opinion of M. de Motschulsky, 
had it not been for the doubt which he himself expresses as to its distinetness; for 
although his descriptions are often insufficient to warrant his conclusions, I render full 
justice to the flair entomologique by which he often instinctively separates nearly allied 
species from each other. 
From Ceylon. 
19. CARPOPHILUS PLANATUS. 
Parvus, subfusiformi-oblongus, depressus, subnitidus, punctatus, griseo subpubescens, 
niger, ore, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis; thorace utrinque bi-impresso, angulis 
omnibus rotundatis. Long. 14 lin., lat. 2 lin. 
Habitat in Victoria in Australia. 
Small, subfusiformly oblong, depressed, somewhat shining, punctate, griseo-subpubes- 
cent, biack. Head very lightly punctate, almost smooth, with a curved impression in 
front. Mouth and antennz ferruginous. "Thorax a half broader than long, narrower in 
front than behind, on each side towards the posterior angles rather deeply impressed, 
the disk flat and subimpressed on each side, all the angles rounded, the base as well as 
the sides distinctly margined ; thickly punctate, the disk a little smoother. Scutellum 
punctate. Elytra nearly a half longer than the thorax, thickly punctate at the base, 
scarcely punctate at the apex, griseo-pubescent, especially at the base, the disk depressed 
and impressed, apex narrowly declinate, truncate scarcely obliquely, sides almost straight 
and parallel, slightly rounded at the humeral angle, exterior apical angle rounded, sutural 
angle nearly a right angle. Abdomen, especially pygidium, finely nigro-pubescent, 
penultimate segment shining, Legs ferruginous. 
From Victoria in Australia. 
