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74. CARPOPHILUS OPHTHALMICUS (La Ferté). (Plate XXXIII. fig. 8.) 
Oblongus, sat. cylindrico-convexus, subopacus, ferrugineo-rufus, griseo pubescens, punc- 
tatus; thorace transversim oblongo. Long. 1j lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Mexico et in Trinidad. 
Oblong, rather cylindrico-convex, somewhat opaque, ferruginous red, griseo-pubescent, 
punctate. Head bi-impressed in front. Thorax transversely oblong, twice as broad as 
long, sides subparallel, declinate, all the angles rounded, apex slightly rounded, base 
truncate. Scutellum triangular, apex somewhat rounded. Elytra a half longer than 
the thorax, slightly wider at the base than the thorax, shoulders rounded, with the sides 
parallel and declinate, deeply margined, with the apex somewhat declinate and truncate 
nearly straight; exterior apical angles rounded, sutural angles nearly right angles. Legs 
stout ; tarsi short and: much dilated, except the last long and slender article. 
From Mexico and Trinidad. Collected by M. Sallé. 
75. CARPOPHILUS SORDIDUS. 
Erichs. in Wiegm. Arch. 92 (1847). 
Oblongus, subconvexus, obscure castaneus vel niger, dense subtiliterque flavescente 
pubescens, crebre subtilissime punctatus; elytris dorso nigro-pubescentibus, callo 
humerali testaceo ; ventre pedibusque castaneo-piceis. Long. 13 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Peruvia. 
Oblong, subconvex, black or obscure chestnut, of fine and rather soft texture, thickly 
clothed with a fine olivaceous-flavescent pubescence, and thickly finely punctate, the 
pubescence and punctuation combined giving a soft silky look to the surface. Eyes 
smaller and less coarsely granulated than in C. ophthalmicus. Thorax transverse, broad, 
lightly convex, very finely and thickly punctate, the sides rapidly and abruptly declinate, 
all the angles obtuse and rounded. Scutellum rounded, subpentagonal. Elytra with the 
back sometimes darker in colour than the rest of the body, sometimes with the humeral 
callus testaceous. Abdomen, underside, and legs chestnut-piceous. 
Erichson describes the elytra as having the back clothed with a black pubescence 
(nigro-pubescentibus). The specimens in the Berlin Museum do not bear out this; the 
disk of each elytron is somewhat darker than the rest of the body, so is the disk of the 
thorax, but the pubescence in all is of the same yellowish olivaceous hue. The humeral 
callus is not always lighter than the rest of the elytra. 
From Bolivia, Peru, &c. In the Berlin and British Museums. 
76. CaAnPOPHILUS PUBESCENS. 
C. sordido affinis, ei simillimus statura et colore; angustior, thorace antice angustiore, 
lateribus citius declinatis, disco magis conico, angulis posticis minus late rotundatis, 
parce punctato; elytris parum brevioribus. Long. 1} lin., lat. 4 lin. 
Habitat in Taprobana. 
Very like C. sordidus. 'The colour and general appearance of both is the same, but 
the form of the thorax is different. In C. sordidus it is transverse and broad, with the 
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