368 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
46. CARPOPHILUS SERICEUS. 
Motsch. Etud. Ent. vii. 41 (1858). 
Depressus, opacus, punctatus, castaneus, pube longa grisea sericea vestitus. Long. 
1$ tin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in India orientali. 
Said by Count de Motschulsky to be similar in form to C. marginellus ; larger and more 
depressed, opaque, punctate, clothed with a longish cinereous silky pubescence; elytra 
chestnut-coloured, abdomen and underside black. Antenne rufo-piceous; club blackish. ° 
Thorax less strongly punctate than the elytra. Elytra short, depressed, and somewhat 
quadrate, with the sides a little rounded, margined, the margin canaliculate towards the 
base, not so towards the apex, which is slightly obliquely truncate, very finely punctate. 
Underside of prothorax rather strongly punctate. Legs rufo-piceous. 
From the East Indies. Count de Motschulsky sent me a specimen, but unfortunately 
its head and thorax were lost on the way—an accident which prevents me saying more 
upon them than is contained in M. de Motschulsky’s own description. The fragment, 
such as it is, is in the British Museum. 
47. CARPOPHILUS OBSOLETUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 259 (1843). 
Carpophilus cribellatus, Motsch. Etud. Ent. 1858, p. 41. 
C. hemiptero paulo minor et magis depressus, confertissime punctatus, nitidulus, parcius 
cinereo pubescens ; niger, pedibus testaceis; elytris lateribus rugulosis, nigro-fuscis, 
macula humerali obsoleta picea. Long. 14 lin. 
Habitat in Taprobana, India orientali, Siam, Aden, et insulis Philippinis. 
Var. C. STRIGIPENNIS, Motsch. Etud. Ent. 1858, p. 41. 
Niger et plerumque minor. Long. 1-14 lin. 
Habitat in Taprobana et Siam. 
Somewhat smaller and more depressed than C. hemipterus, black, somewhat shining, 
sparingly cinereo-pubescent. Antennæ ferruginous. Head densely and rather deeply 
punctate, obsoletely impressed on each side in front. "Thorax of the breadth of the elytra, 
scarcely narrower in front, very thickly and somewhat strongly punctate, rugulose towards 
the sides, with a fovea near the posterior angles; anterior angles obtusely rounded; 
posterior angles nearly rectangular, but with the point broadly rounded; pubescence 
directed from the sides towards the middle and slightly backwards. Scutellum trans- 
verse, subpentagonal, apical angles rounded, faintly punctate at the base, smooth at the 
apex. Elytra a little longer than the thorax, very thickly punctate, towards the sides 
finely rugulose, nigro-fuscous, with a minute obsolete piceous humeral spot. Abdomen 
thickly punctate, with the segments margined with piceous; pygidium subacuminate at 
the apex. Legs testaceous. 
The species described by M. de Motschulsky under the name C. strigipennis is only à 
slightly darker and smaller variety. 
From Ceylon, East Indies, Siam, &c. 
