362 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARIA. 
35. CARPOPHILUS HOFFMANSEGGII. 
C. obeso valde affinis; thoracis elytrorumque marginibus minus reflexis. Long. 14 lin., 
lat. 1 lin. 
Habitat in Madagascaria ? 
Very closely allied to C. obesus ; may be distinguished by the margins of the thorax and 
elytra being less reflexed. 
There are two specimens of this insect in the Berlin Museum. But my detailed 
description and note of the locality has fallen aside; I have a vague impression that it is 
from Madagascar. 
Section VI. Body convex and fusiform. Texture so closely punctate as to appear shagreened. 
Elytra with paler spots or markings. 
36. CARPOPHILUS HEMIPTERUS. (Plate XXXII. fig. 10.) 
Steph. Illustr. Brit. Ent. iii. 50. 1 (1830). Shuck. Brit. Col. Delin. 25. 229, pl. 30. fig. 6 (1840). Erichs. 
in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 256. 4 (1843). Sturm, Deutschl. Ins. xv. 36. 1, taf. 292. fig. a, A (1844). Erichs. 
Ins. Deutschl. iii. 135. 2 (1848). 
Dermestes hemipterus, Linn., Degeer. 
Nitidula flecuosa, Payk., Herbst. 
Nitidula bimaculata, Oliv., Gyll., Schonh. 
Nitidula dimidiata, Fab. 
Nitidula cadaverina, Fab. 
Stenus Ficus, Fab. 
Var. A. 
Nitidula quadrata, Fab. 
Cateretes pictus ?, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 413 (1841). 
Cateretes dimidiatus, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 413 (1841). 
Niger, pubescens, prothoracis lateribus pedibusque ferrugineis; elytris apice P 1 
lato sinuato et macula humerali luteis. Long. 14 lin., lat. 2 lin. 
Var. A. Fuscus, elytris testaceis, plaga scutellari fusca. 
Habitat ubique. 
Convex, black or brown, slightly shining, and densely clothed with griseous pubes- 
cence, especially on the sides of the thorax and abdomen.  Antenn:e reddish yellow, | 
with the club fuscous. Head small, deeply punctate, the mouth testaceous, underside 
piceous. The thorax is at its base of the breadth of the elytra, narrower in front, little | | 
rounded on the sides, before and behind almost straight, truncate, all the angles appa- | 
rently rounded, but on closer examination the anterior angles are obtuse and declinate, | 
and the posterior angles obtuse; moderately convex, densely punctate. Scutellum rather 
large, punctate. Elytra a little longer than the thorax, deeply, and in the middle almost 
rugosely, punctate; the whole apex and a spot at the shoulder testaceous. Abdomen 
finely punctate. Legs reddish yellow. 
This species is spread over the whole world, and exhibits considerable variation in the» 
colouring and the particular proportions and even form of some of the parts, but never 
