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26. CARPOPHILUS TRITON. 
Affinis C. nigro ; grandis, oblongo-ovatus, subdepressus, subopacus, crebre granulose punc- 
tatus, griseo pubescens, nigro-fuscus ; antennis, ore, thoracis lateribus pedibusque 
rufescentibus, thoracis margine fere levi. Long. 24 lin., lat. 1} lin. 
Habitat in Sunggari. 
Nearly allied to C. niger. Large, subdepressed, sloping slightly to each side as from 
a longitudinal ridge in the line of the suture, oblong-ovate, subopaque, thickly granu- 
losely punctate, griseo-pubescent, brownish black. Head deeply bi-impressed in front; 
antennse, mandibles, and other parts of the mouth rufescent, club of the antennz darker. 
'Thorax transverse, nearly twice as broad as long, narrower in front than behind, unequal, 
the sides in the middle nearly straight, and turning in with a short curve to the posterior 
angles, in front of which is a marginal depression, and with a larger and more gentle 
curve to the anterior angles; rather expanded, rufescent, and with a marginal channel 
(widest at the posterior angles) formed by the raised edging of the margin; edge of 
margin almost smooth, very slightly irregular towards the anterior angles, which are 
obtuse; apex emarginate, the emargination curved; posterior angles obtuse; base sub- 
sinuate, with a curved depression from nearly the middle of the base to the front of the . 
posterior angles ; disk raised, and somewhat irregularly depressed in the middle, the sides 
sloping from the disk. Scutellum transverse, rounded. Elytra a half longer than the 
thorax, at the base wider than the thorax, slightly widened about the middle, sides 
rounded and margined, shoulders prominent and with a slight tendency to rufescence, 
and a slight elevation behind obliquely towards the suture; apex of each elytron truncate 
obliquely, margin of the apex rufescent. Exposed portion of the abdomen fully longer 
than the thorax, margins of the segments rufescent ; the surface more finely punctate and 
pubescent than the rest, assuming a more finely shagreened appearance. Legs rufescent. 
This species is very closely allied to the C. niger of North America. It is larger, 
fuscous instead of deep black, with the margins of the thorax, antennze, and legs rufescent. 
In C. niger the sides of the thorax are straighter, more parallel, and less rounded-in at 
the posterior angles. It is the Asiatic representative of that species, and perhaps scarcely 
entitled to a place as a distinct species. 
From Sunggari. I owe this species to M. Obert, of St. Petersburg, from whom I have 
received many interesting species from the interior of Siberia. 
| Fig. 95. 
Section V. Body broad and convex, and with the thorax separately convex. The 
fimbriz usually more developed than in most of the other species. Colours black 
and sombre. 
27. CARPOPHILUS MORIO (Klug). 
C. nigerrimus (Dup.). 
Latus, depressus, niger, subopacus, erebre punctatus, breviter nigro pubescens; thorace 
convexo, disco postice depresso, linea brevi longitudinali levi ante scutellum, an- 
gulis anticis rotundatis ; elytris planis, lateribus rotundatis. Long. 21 lin., lat. 1 lin. 
Habitat in Madagascaria, 
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