984 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
sides turning down rapidly when near the margin; in C. pubescens the sides slope more 
gradually from the culminating ridge, giving its section somewhat of a conical form. In 
C. sordidus the thorax is dull and covered with pubescence, and very finely punctate ; 
in 0, pubescens it is not so dull, and larger punctures are scattered over it. The pubes- 
cence also lies in a different manner: in C. sordidus it is directed from the sides to a 
point immediately before the scutellum, while in C. pubescens it is directed from each 
side towards the middle, so that the hairs meet in a ridge all along the dorsal region. 
The elytra also, although narrower than in C. sordidus, are proportionally broader when 
compared with the breadth of the thorax; they are also proportionally shorter. The 
keel of the prosternum is narrow and bent in, instead of being broad at its apex ; and the 
segments of the abdomen are so wide, that one of the chief generic characters of Car- 
pophilus, viz. that the second and third segments of the abdomen are very short, is almost 
absent. The eyes too are smaller and not so coarsely granulated as in C. ophthalmicus. 
From Ceylon. I owe this species to the kindness of Mr. Nietner and Count de 
Motschulsky. 
(Subgenus ENDOMERUS (2dov, within; and pépoc, a part,—in allusion to each of the last 
three segments of the abdomen retiring within the preceding segment).) 
Corpus breve, convexum, subcylindri Abdomen segmentis ultimis tribus expositis, sed parum visis; 
segmentis singulis a precedentibus intus susceptis. 
The chief distinctions of this subgenus are, its having three exposed segments of the 
abdomen. Notwithstanding that there are three, each is so enclosed like the joints of a 
telescope within the preceding segment, that the whole are very short and scarcely visible. 
The body is short, thick, round, barreled, and cylindrical; and the elytra appear longer 
than usual, but this is merely an appearance due to the small portion of the “abdomen 
which is visible. 
77. CaRPOPHILUS PIGER. (Plate XX XIII. fig. 3.) 
Curtus, subcylindricus, obesus, leviter punctatus, griseo pubescens, castaneo-fuscus ; ore, 
antennis pedibusque testaceis. Long. 1-11 lin., lat. 3 lin. 
Habitat in Guatemala. 
Short, subcylindrical, obese, lightly punctate, griseo-pubescent, chestnut-brown. Head 
rounded, finely punctate, very faintly bi-impressed in front; mandibles, mouth, and 
antennz testaceous. Thorax with the sides subparallel, all the angles rounded and 
declinate both in front and behind and at the sides. Scutellum rounded. Elytra decli- 
nate at the base towards the thorax and at the apex, longer than the thorax, but not a 
half longer, obliquely rounded at the apex, and with both the exterior apical angles and 
the sutural angles rounded. Abdomen finely punctate and finely pubescent, margins of 
the segments rufescent. Legs testaceous. 
From Guatemala. 
78. CARPOPHILUS SENEX. 
Affinis C. pigro; subcylindrico-convexus, Subopacus, fuscus, parce et sparsim longe 
