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so much so as to alter the general effect. For example, the following variations occur 
in the form, with intermediate degrees of each, viz. :— : 
1. The posterior angles of the thorax nearly right angles. 
2. 'The posterior angles of the thorax nearly rounded. 
3. The posterior angles of the thorax obliquely cut off. 
In colour, again, it varies as much, the variations, however, being all referable to greater 
or less intensity of colouring. 
Before I had seen so large a series of specimens from all parts of the world as I now 
have, I was disposed to make several species, in which var. 1 would have represented the 
usual European form, var. 2 a form from South America, var. 3 from the Fiji Islands; 
but a more extended examination showed me that all these varieties are to be found in 
the specimens from any one place, and are therefore not to be regarded. 
37. CARPOPHILUS 4-SIGNATUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 257 (1843). 
Statura omnino C. bipustulati ; subdepressus, confertissime punctatus, niger, 
antennarum basi pedibusque piceis, elytris maculis duabus testaceis. 
Long. 14 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Europa meridionali et Asia. 
Fig. 98. 
Of the form of C. bipustulatus, black, throughout cinereo-pubescent ; antennz black, 
with the base piceous. Head densely punctate. Thorax slightly narrowed in front, 
slightly rounded on the sides, very convex and less faintly punctate in the middle, 
somewhat rugulose towards the sides, subimpressed on each side behind. Scutellum 
thickly punctate. Elytra a little longer than the thorax, very thickly punctate, with 
two testaceous spots, the one minute on the shoulder, the other larger near the suture 
before the apex. Abdomen densely and faintly punctate, with the last segment smooth 
towards the apex ; the ventral segments margined with piceous. Legs piceous, with the 
knees and tarsi rufous. 
Found in Sicily, Smyrna, &c. 
38. CARPOPHILUS LIGATUS (Motsch.). 
(C. vittatus, Motsch.) 
Oblongo-ovatus, subnitidus, punctatus, niger ; elytris fuscis, vitta oblonga testacea prope 
apicem et suturam ; antennis pedibusque ferrugineis. Long. 1} lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Taprobana. 
Oblong-ovate, somewhat shining, punctate, black ; elytra fuscous, with an elongate tes- 
taceous patch near the suture and apex. Head closely punctate, depressed in the middle 
in front, distinctly impressed on each side by a slender, short transverse line. Thorax 
narrower in front, with the sides slightly rounded; the anterior and posterior angles 
obtusely rounded; punctate, more deeply towards the sides, rather deeply impressed on 
each side behind ; the base slightly margined, as well as the sides. Scutellum transversely 
subpentagonal. Elytra subdepressed, of the length of the thorax, more lightly punctate 
