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nigris, basi et callo humerali tenuiter obscure ferrugineis ; ore, antennis (clava fusea 
excepta) pedibusque ferrugineo-piceis. Long. 2 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Peruvia. 
Rather large, subdepressed, opaque, densely pubescent and closely punctate, black. Head 
with a semicircular line between the anterior inner corners of the eyes. "Thorax more 
coarsely punctate than the head, rather broader than long, narrower in front than behind, 
the sides rounded-in anteriorly, anterior angles rounded, posterior obtuse, depressed on 
the disk, with a large shallow fovea on each side of and a little behind the middle, 
exterior to that a smaller and shallower depression, and close to and along the slightly 
raised margin another depression about one-third from the front, and another narrow de- 
pressed line or gutter near the posterior angles, base bisinuate, posterior angles pointing 
backwards. Elytra rather wider than thorax, piceous black, with the humeral callus and 
the base narrowly obscurely ferruginous; exterior apical angle rounded. Mouth, base 
of antennæ, and legs ferrugineo-piceous. 
From Peru. In the collection of the Jardin des Plantes. 
25. CARPOPHILUS NIGER. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 263 (1843). 
Cercus niger, Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. iii. 195.2. 
Latus, parum opacus, subdepressus, niger, griseo pubescens, punctatus; thorace lateri- 
bus minus rotundatis, margine irregulari fere serrato, repando, angulis posticis 
obtusis; elytris disco et pone humeros impressis. Long. 2-22 lin., lat. 1-1} lin. 
Habitat in America boreali. 
Broad, subdepressed, black, nearly opaque. Antenn:e piceous, the club black. Labrum 
piceous. Head thickly punctate, impressed on each side in front. Thorax a little nar- 
rower than the elytra, narrowed in front, rounded on the sides, very closely strongly 
punctate, behind lightly bi-impressed on each side, with the disk black, the sides griseo- 
pubescent, the lateral margin rufescent, reflexed, slightly expanded, and the edge irre- 
gular, almost faintly serrate; both anterior and posterior angles obtusely rounded. 
Seutellum thickly punctate. Elytra almost a half longer than the thorax, densely and 
faintly punctate, slenderly nigro-pubescent, clothed at the base with a thicker griseous 
pubescence. Abdomen faintly punctate, slightly Prop لمشي‎ with the segments 
margined with piceous. Legs piceous. 
This species may be distinguished from C. lacertosus by its greater size, and by the 
sides of the thorax being less declinate and less rounded, and by its margins being 
piceous and translucent. It is distinguished from O. lugubris by its posterior angles 
being gently obtuse; from C. rufimanus, to which it approaches nearest in point of size, 
by its coarser punctuation and pubescence; and from both C. lugubris and C. brevipennis 
by its non-ferruginous shoulders. The coarse punctuation on the thorax makes its edges 
almost serrate. There is a small metathoracic axillary piece, which is smoother than the 
neighbouring surface, and slightly punctate in the centre. 
From nem America, where it appears to be pretty extensively distributed. 
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