378 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
Subeylindric, oblong, very coarsely punctate, testaceo-rufo-pubescent, rufo-ferruginous 
or ferruginous, with the disk of the thorax and the abdomen and body below fuscous. 
Head with the epistome rounded. Thorax with the sides declinate, the anterior angles 
somewhat right-angled, the posterior broadly rounded, the sides and base margined. 
Scutellum rounded at the apex, somewhat fuscous, finely punctate. Elytra with the 
sides gently rounded and margined ; يه‎ of each elytron obliquely truncate. Legs 
rufous. 
From Europe, North America, South America, East Indies, Ceylon, &c. 
I have received this insect from Ceylon, mixed up with C. mutilatus, and I am almost 
inclined to think that they may be varieties of the same species. "The only difference that 
I ean see, besides size and stronger punctuation, is that the thorax is more quadrate than 
in C. mutilatus. In this species the squareness is more marked ; but it will be seen from 
. my remarks upon C. vittiger that this may perhaps be a sexual character—at any rate a 
variable one. The specific name proposed for C. ochropterus in the Museum of the 
Jardin des Plantes (C. quadraticollis) would have been better applied to this. 
64. CARPOPHILUS MUTILATUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 258 (1843). 
Nitidula hemiptera, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 1. 261 (1792). 
Nitidula pallens?, Blanch. in d'Orbigny, Voy. dans 'Amér. Mérid. vi. 2. Ins. 64 (1837-43). 
Carpophilus mutilatus, Woll. Ins. Mad. 116 (1854). 
Subcylindrico-oblongus, rufo-ferrugineus, pubescens, crebre subtiliter punctatus; thorace 
subquadrato; elytris thorace vix longioribus; abdomine infra colore saturatiore. 
Long. 13 lin., lat. 4 lin. 
Habitat in Europa meridionali, in Madera, in India orientali, in India occidentali, in Australia &c. 
Subcylindric-oblong, sparsely clothed with a rather long pale testaceous pubescence, 
densely and finely punctate, not shining, flavo-testaceous or rufo-ferruginous. Head 
punctate, with longer pubescence than that on the thorax: the usual impressions on each 
side in front are either absent or very slight. Thorax convex, large, subquadrate, rather 
strongly punctate, the punctures variolose, the pubescence all directed to a point imme- 
diately in front of the scutellum; sides declinate, angles all obtusely rounded, apex 
and base nearly straight, truncate; the disk usually somewhat darker than the sides. 
Scutellum also darker, moderate in size, rounded, nearly impunctate, a few faint small 
punctures only at its base. Elytra scarcely (perhaps a very little) longer than the thorax, 
not wider than the thorax, shoulders distinct, but not very prominent, sides straight when 
seen from above, declinate and slightly rounded, margin distinct; testaceous, paler than 
the thorax, near the scutellum and along the apex slightly darker than the rest of the 
elytra, finely and not very closely punctate, punctuation becoming thieker towards the 
suture, pubescence long; the apex declinate, each elytron truncate obliquely, exterior 
apical angles obtusely rounded, sutural angles obtuse, right angles at the very point. 
: Abdomen above rufo-ferruginous, with a tinge of fuscous; underside and legs rather 
darker. Legs robust. 
lam inclined to think, from 21. Blanchard's description and the examination of a 
