MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 855 
particularly in a rather deep impression close to the sides a little behind the middle. 
Seutellum broad, transverse, triangular, more finely punctate than the thorax. Elytra 
broader at the base than the thorax, longer than the thorax, together broader than long, 
irregularly faintly punctate, and with some slight depressions here and there on the disk ; 
shoulders rather prominent, sides strongly margined and deeply canaliculate, rounded, 
more sharply in front and behind than in the middle; apex of each elytron obliquely 
truncate; exterior apical angles obtuse, rounded; sutural angles obtuse. Abdomen very 
faintly thickly punctate. Below thickly punctate. Tarsi rufous. 
From Guatemala. Collected by M. Sallé. 
SECTION IV. Body more or less elongate, subdepressed, thorax not flat ; above the medium size. Texture 
shagreened, very thickly pubescent, and opaque. Colours black and sombre. 
23. CARPOPHILUS LUGUBRIS. 
Subdepressus, subopacus, dense punctatus, griseo pubescens, sordide niger; thorace 
margine rufescente; elytris humero obscure ferrugineo; pedibus piceis. Long. 13 
lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in America boreali et in America meridionali. 
Subdepressed, subopaque, densely punctate, griseo-pubescent, rather dirty-looking black. 
Head very thickly punctate, with an impression on each side in front. Antenne piceous, 
with the club black. Labrum piceous. Thorax slightly convex, a little narrower than 
the elytra, rather narrower in front than behind, anterior angles obtuse, posterior some- 
what obtuse and very slightly looking back, the sides turned-in at the angles; rounded 
on the sides, which are griseo-pubescent, and somewhat expanded, translucent, and 
rufescent, especially towards the posterior angles; margined, the edging of the margins 
reflexed. Scutellum thickly punctate. Elytra almost a half longer than the thorax, 
scarcely wider than the thorax at their base, the sides rapidly widened near the base, and 
then not much more widened afterwards; sides scarcely rounded, except at the base and 
the apex, and there only slightly; densely and faintly punctate, black, the shoulders 
obscurely ferruginous, slightly nigro-pubescent, at the base clothed with a denser gri- 
seous pubescence; slightly convex behind, rather flat on the disk ; apex of each elytron 
obliquely truncate; exterior apical angles rounded, sutural obtuse. Abdomen more 
finely punctate, lightly griseo-pubescent, with the segments margined with piceous. 
Legs piceous. 
Easily distinguished from its allies, C. niger and C. lacertosus, by the margin and the 
posterior angles of the thorax, as well as the shoulders of the elytra, being rufescent. 
From various parts of North and South America, such as Venezuela, Cerqecnty 
Florida, &c. 
24. CARPOPHILUS BREVIPENNIS. 
Blanchard, in D'Orbigny's Voy. dans PAmér. Mérid. vi. 2. Ins. (1837-43). 
Subdepressus, opacus, crebre punctatus, pubescens, niger; thorace fovea majore utrinque 
prope sed pone medium, foveaque minore utrinque, his exterioribus; elytris piceo- 
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