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About the size and appearance of C. hemipterus ; somewhat more depressed, black, feebly 
shining, thinly clothed with fine grey pubescence, more thickly on the sides. Antennæ 
red, with the first article piceous brown and the club black. Head small, sparsely and 
finely punctate, the epistome separated from the forehead by a somewhat rounded impres- 
sion. "Thorax behind of about the breadth of the elytra, and there about a third broader 
than long, considerably narrower in front, feebly rounded on the sides, in front and behind 
straight, truncate, all the angles somewhat rounded; sparsely and finely punctate on the 
disk, more thickly and somewhat rugosely on the sides, with a shallow round depression 
on each side behind at some distance from the posterior angles. Scutellum thickly and 
finely punctate at the base, and with thick pubescence. Elytra a little longer and more 
pubescent than the thorax, thickly punctate, the shoulders, which are somewhat pro- 
jecting, and the apical margin very finely punctate, with fine black pubescence, the outer 
margin with two rows of fine greyish hairs; each elytron with a yellowish reddish spot 
with grey pubescence, the shoulders brownish. Abdomen not very thickly punctate, the 
pubescence in the middle of the segments fine and black, on the sides and at the point 
thicker and grey. Legs red; the thighs somewhat darker. 
This species is rather narrower and more elongate than 0. hemipterus. The elytra are 
without a humeral spot, although the colour is sometimes a little lighter at the shoulder, 
and the medial spot is somewhat oval and obliquely directed to the shoulder. 
There is a variety which has the red spot reduced to a mere point, as shown in fig. 102. 
From Austria, Sardinia, and other parts of the south of Europe. 
42. CARPOPHILUS BISIGNATUS. 
Bohem. Ins. Caffr. i. 563 (1848). = 
niger, tenuiter cinereo pubescens; capite et thorace confertim punctu- 
latis; elytris crebre rugoso-punctatis, rugis obsolete longitudinalibus, 
singulis prope sed paulo pone medium macula sat magna rufa fere S" chen i 
rotunda paulo obliqua ex adverso scutelli; pedibus piceis. Long. figure not exact. 
12 lin., lat. 2 lin. orsi oo e 
Habitat in Caffraria, Natalia, &c. Sd 
Allied to C. bipustulatus; narrower, subovate, rather broad and moderately convex, 
thickly punctate, finely cinereo-pubescent, black, with a red patch on each elytron. 
Head with a transverse faint line uniting two transverse foveæ immediately behind the 
epistome. Thorax with the disk less coarsely punctate than the sides, with a deep and 
more coarsely punctate fovea on each side a short space in front of the posterior angles, 
narrower in front than behind, with the posterior two-thirds of the margin nearly parallel, 
but with a slight sinuation corresponding to the deep fovea; a small fovea at the ante- 
rior margin on each side behind the sides of the head, anterior margin scarcely emargi- 
nate, posterior sinuato-truncate; both anterior and posterior angles obtuse, the lateral 
margins with a narrow raised edge somewhat roughened by the coarse punctuation. 
Elytra flattened, sloping obliquely from the suture, less coarsely punctate than thorax, 
a little widest behind the middle, thickly rugosely punctate, the punctures obsoletely 
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Affinis C. bipustulato ; angustior, subovatus, sat latus et modice convexus, 0 
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