354 MR. A. MURRAY’S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARIA. 
Secrion III. Body elongate and depressed, with the surface of the thorax as if a roller had passed over it ; 
above the medium size. Texture more or less shining, shagreened. 
20. CARPOPHILUS LACERTOSUS. 
Punctatus, parum pubescens, niger, elytris purpureo-brunneis; thorace angulis posticis 
obtusis, basi bisinuato; elytris alutaceis; pedibus piceis. Long. 1j lin., lat. 2 lin. 
Habitat in Venezuela. 
Elongate, subfusiform, thickly but not very deeply punctate. Head bi-impressed on 
the margin in front. The mandibles and other parts of the mouth piceo-ferruginous. 
Thorax transverse, and not much narrower in front than behind; the sides form an equal 
curve; the anterior angles are rounded, and the posterior obtuse; base bisinuate. Scu- 
tellum black, broadly triangular. Elytra slightly widest behind the middle, once and a 
half the length of the thorax, finely punctate and pubescent; apex of each elytron very 
obliquely truncate. Abdomen somewhat shining, finely punctate. Legs piceous. 
This species has considerable resemblance to C. lugubris in the next section, but it is 
depressed and flattened on the back, has not the dark pubescence which is on it, and is 
without the rufous margins of the thorax and the rufous spot on the shoulders of the 
elytra. It is also narrower, the elytra are purple-brown, and their texture is somewhat 
leathery. 
From Venezuela and the neighbouring parts of South America. Apparently not rare. 
21. CARPOPHILUS PURPUREIPENNIS. 
C. lacertoso valde affinis; paulo major et fortius punctatus; thorace antice angustiore, 
margine piceo; elytris purpureo-nigris, humeris interdum piceis. Long. 14 lin., lat. 
$ lin. 
Habitat in Venezuela. 
This is very near to C. lacertosus, and is possibly only a variety of it. It is a little 
larger and more deeply punctate (as is usually the case with larger specimens). The 
thorax is narrower in front and has its margin piceous. The elytra are purplish black ; 
the shoulders in some instances piceous. 
From Venezuela. 
22. CARPOPHILUS RUFITARSIS. 
Oblongo-ovatus, latus, sat depressus, subtiliter crebre punctatus, nitidus, niger, tarsis 
rufis. Long. 21 lin., lat. 1 lin. 
Habitat in Guatemala. 
Large, oblong-ovate, broad, depressed, faintly thickly punctate, very shining for this 
group, black. Head bi-impressed at the sides near the eyes in front. Antenne nearly 
twice the length of the head, slender, basal joints piceous, club elongate conical. Thorax 
narrower in front than behind, apex slightly emarginate, the sides lightly rounded, the 
anterior angles rounded, the posterior obtuse, base sinuate near the angles, the middle 
gently rounded, extending broadly a very little further back than the angles; disk smooth, 
broad, and lightly thickly punctate, the punctures coarser towards the sides, and more 
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