380 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
This is a most variable species, both as to colour, punctuation, and form of the thorax ; 
but I have been unable to find more than one species in it. The most confusing cha- 
racter is the thorax—in some specimens comparatively narrowed in front and not very 
convex or large, in others large, broad, wide in front, and very convex. It is possible 
that these are sexual distinctions, and that the same characters will be found to distin- 
guish the sexes in all this oblong group. A large light-coloured variety stands in the 
Berlin Museum under the name of C. cephalotes. 
66. CARPOPHILUS PALLESCENS. 
C. dimidiato affinis; multo levius punctatus, pubescentia brevi sequaliter vestitus, tes- 
taceus, elytrorum apice saturatiore. Long. 1 lin., lat. į lin. 
Habitat in insula Waigiou prope Novam Guineam. 
Allied to and very like C. dimidiatus, but, instead of being somewhat coarsely punc- 
tate as seen under the lens, its surface is so finely punctate as to be almost imper- 
ceptible. The pubescence is short and regularly distributed, instead of being, as in C. 
dimidiatus, all directed to a point in front of the scutellum. The sides of the thorax 
are much declinate and strongly margined, the posterior angles rounded, and the an- 
terior angles obtuse. Its colour is testaceous, in some specimens darker on the apex of 
the elytra and abdomen. In other respects there is little difference between it and C. 
dimidiatus. 
From the island of Waigiou, near New Guinea, 
67. CARPOPHILUS PILOSELLUS. 
Motsch. Etud. Ent. 1855, p. 41. 
C. dimidiato valde affinis; minor, levius punctatus, pube breviore et magis sericea ; 
| thorace antice parum angustiore; scutello minore: capite et thorace dilute cas- 
taneis, elytris testaceo-piceis, abdomine piceo-nigro, pedibus piceis. Long. 1-1j lin., 
lat. 1— lin. 
Habitat in India orientali et in Celebes. 
Closely allied to C. dimidiatus. Smaller, narrower, and comparatively more elongate; 
more finely punctate, and with a shorter and more silky pubescence disposed as in that 
species; the thorax slightly narrower in front; the scutellum somewhat smaller. The 
head and thorax pale chestnut; the elytra testaceo-piceous ; the abdomen and underside 
piceous black; the legs piceous. 
From the East Indies and the island of Celebes. 
68. CARPOPHILUS NOTATUS (Klug). 
C. dimidiato similis, elytrorum medio macula obsoleta rufa. Long. 14 lin., lat. 3 lin. 
Habitat in Madagascaria. 
sm to C. dimidiatus, with an obsolete rufous patch in the middle of the elytra. 
From Madagascar. In the Berlin collection. 
