MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 877 
indication of dark ferruginous; the penultimate segment of the abdomen above showing 
a tendency to a paler margin. Antenne and legs ferrugineo-piceous. 
From Madagascar. 
Among the specimens from Madagascar in the collection of the Jardin des Plantes is 
one wholly fuscous and with a light griseous pubescence. It is a trifle narrower than 
the typical example of this species, but I can see no other difference, and I have therefore 
recorded it as a variety. 
62. CARPOPHILUS OCHROPTERUS (Klug). 
C. quadraticollis, Mus. Jard. Pl. 
C. lividus, Dej. Cat. p. 134. 
Elongatus, subconvexus, crebre punctatus, ferrugineo-fuscus, subtus ferrugi- 
neus, thorace supra nigro vel fusco, lateribus et elytris dilutioribus; tho- 
race quadrato, fere latiore antice quam postice. Long. 14 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Fig. 105. 
Var. Totus ferrugineus. 
Habitat in Madagascaria et Caffraria. 
Subcylindric, elongate, subconvex, ferrugineo-fuscous, thorax sometimes fuscous or 
black, darkest on the disk; the elytra paler, sometimes yellowish, and palest on the disk ; 
densely punctate and with short pubescence. Head convex, with a triangular smooth 
space (of which the apex is pointed backwards) immediately behind the labrum. "Thorax 
large and square, if anything a little wider before than behind, with the sides and anterior 
angles steeply declinate; disk less coarsely punctate than the rest; a short smooth line 
in front of the scutellum; sides and base narrowly margined, apex scarcely margined, 
a shallow depression towards the posterior angle; anterior angles obtuse, posterior angles 
rounded. Scutellum smooth and impunctate. Elytra scarcely longer than the thorax, very 
slightly longer than broad, margins edged and exteriorly broadly inflexed, less coarsely 
punctate than the thorax, apex obliquely truncate. Abdomen densely punctate. 
There is considerable variation in the size and colour of this species. The thorax is in 
some instances wholly testaceous, in others wholly fuscous, and again testaceous with 
the disk fuscous. 
It has very much of the character of C. mutilatus, but is twice its size. It is still 
nearer to C. luridus, but is more coarsely punctate. I am not quite satisfied that it is 
really distinet from it, but place it so until we obtain more information and additional 
materials. 
From Madagascar, Natal, and Caffraria. 
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63. CARPOPHILUS LURIDUS. 
(Dej. Cat. 134, ed. 1837.) 
C. ochroptero et C. mutilato intermedius; hoe sesqui major, interdum rufo-ferrugineus, 
interdum ferrugineus, cum thoracis disco et corpore subtus fusco vel nigro, antennis 
pedibusque ferrugineis; O. mutilato magis punctatus; thorace quadrato, fere latiore 
antice quam postice. Long. 14 lin., lat. $ lin. 
. Habitat in Europa, America boreali, America meridionali, India orientali &c. 
