MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 375 
obtuse, rounded on the outside. Abdomen piceous black, with the sides ferruginous, 
very finely punctate and pubescent. Breast nigro-piceous. Legs ferruginous. 
From Borabora. A unicate in the Museum at Copenhagen; collected on the voyage . 
of the Danish frigate * Galathea.' 
58. CARPOPHILUS MUTABILIS. 
Fairm. Essai sur les Coléoptéres de la Polynésie, in Rev. et Mag. de Zool. June 1849, p. 26. 
Parum depressus, punctatus, elytris prothorace sesqui longioribus; colore variabili: 
brunneus, prothoracis lateribus et elytrorum macula arcuata rufis ; interdum testaceus, 
prothoracis disco et elytrorum macula brunneis. Long. 1-14 lin. 
Habitat in Tahiti. . ؛‎ i 
Elongate, slightly depressed, thickly punctate, with a silky pubescence. The thorax 
more finely punctate than the elytra, with the angles rounded, and sometimes with a 
scarcely perceptible line in the middle. Elytra once and a half as long as the thorax, 
truncate. The colour is very variable: in young individuals it is rather bright testa- 
ceous, with the disk of the thorax and a spot upon each elytron brownish ; afterwards, 
by transition, the colour becomes reddish, with the disk of the thorax, a spot in the 
middle of the elytra, and the extremity brown; the normal colour is brownish black, 
with the circumference of the head, that of the thorax, an arched blotch on each elytron, 
the abdomen, and the legs of an obscure sanguineous red. In one variety there remains 
nothing of red but the posterior part of the head and a narrow transverse band at the 
base of the elytra. 
Very common all the year round at Tahiti in all kinds of decaying fruits, but more 
particularly in oranges and citrons. 
M. Fairmaire says that this species is allied to C. obsoletus, Erichs., but differs from it 
by its longer elytra, less depressed body, and differently disposed coloration. From his 
description, however, it seems more allied to the preceding species or to C. vittiger; but 
as I have not seen it, and it does not entirely agree with either, I can only reproduce 
it, leaving it to be hereafter determined whether it is distinet or not. 
59. CARPOPHILUS FUMATUS. 
Bohem. Ins. Caffr. i. 564 (1848). * 
Subovatus, modice convexus, piceus, parum nitidus, cinereo pubescens; antennis pedi- 
busque rufo-testaceis; capite prothoraceque subtiliter crebre punctulatis; elytris 
rufo-testaceis, evidenter crebre rugoso-punctatis, apice infuseatis. Long. 1j lin., 
lat. 3 lin | 
Habitat in Caffraria. 
Equal in size to C. hemipterus. Head above somewhat convex, piceous, a little shining, 
slenderly pubescent, finely thickly punetulate. Antennz short, rufo-testaceous, with 
the club fuscous and rounded. Thorax scarcely a half shorter than broad, piceous, above 
moderately convex, finely thickly punctulate, slenderly cinereo-pubescent, in front gently 
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