MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 371 
elytra strongly punctate and sparsely clothed with a testaceous-yellow pile. Abdomen 
with the exposed segments very finely punctate, the body below rather strongly punctate. 
Legs rufescent-fuscous ; tarsi ferruginous. 
From Oran in Algeria. 
Secrion VIII. Body very convex and colours bright. 
52. CARPOPHILUS MELANOPTERUS. (Plate XXXII. fig. 11.) 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 262 (1843). 
Subovatus, obesus, subopacus, convexus, apterus, lete rufus, elytris nigris, opacis, abdo- 
mine subnitido. Long. 13-2 lin., lat. 3-1 lin. 
Habitat in partibus meridionalibus Americz borealis. 
Generally about twice the size of C. hemipterus, but sometimes no larger, obese, convex, 
rufous, subopaque, finely punctate. Antennz with the club black. Head finely punc- 
tate, subimpressed on each side in front. "Thorax convex, very thickly finely punctate, 
subrugulose, gently narrowed in front, truncate at the apex, subsinuate on each side at 
the base, with the sides slightly rounded, acutely margined ; anterior angles obtuse, pos- 
terior angles rounded. Scutellum triangular, closely punctate. Elytra convex, a little 
longer than the thorax, finely punctate, black or bluish black, opaque, with the shoulders 
and the apex sometimes subrufescent, apex obliquely truncate; sutural angles obtuse, 
exterior apical angles rounded. Abdomen very thickly punctate. Legs testaceous. 
From South Carolina, Mexico, &c. 
53. CARPOPHILUS RUFUS. 
Sat magnus, parum convexus, aurantiaco-rufus, subopacus, creberrime leviter punctatus, 
breviter rufo pubescens; thorace angulis posticis abrupte incurvatis. Long. 2 lin., 
lat. 1 lin. : 
Habitat in Mexico. 
Large, rather broad and slightly convex, above orange-red; the abdomen a little 
darker and somewhat piceous, below wholly piceo-ferruginous, closely and very finely 
punctate, subopaque, with a close, short, concolorous pubescence. Head with two im- 
pressions in front between the eyes. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, wider behind 
than in front; sides for the anterior four-fifths sloping gradually to the apex, for the 
posterior fifth ineurved rapidly and abruptly to the posterior angles, making these angles 
appear as if cut off, but the real angle is further in towards the base; apex not emargi- 
nate, anterior angles slightly obtuse, posterior angles excessively obtuse and slightly 
reflexed at the tip, disk somewhat flat in the middle. Scutellum rounded at the apex. 
Elytra a little wider than the thorax, not much longer than broad, not much declinate 
towards the margin, the inflexed portion on the underside rather wide, widest behind 
the shoulder; apex of each elytron obliquely truncate; disk impressed near the scutellum 
and near the shoulder. Abdomen more coarsely and sparingly punctate; pygidium 
longer than penultimate segment. 
From Mexico. In the collection in the Jardin des Plantes. 
