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posterior angles obtuse; the disk flat, depressed, not very thickly punctate, the sides 
more or less piceous. Scutellum rounded at the apex, with a line of punctures at the 
base. Elytra nearly twice as long as the thorax, flatly depressed, before and behind the 
middle slightly impressed, thickly punctate, an elongate spot on the shoulder, a second 
somewhat before the middle near the suture, and a third, smaller, behind the middle on 
the exterior margin, lighter or darker reddish yellow; the last spot is usually very much 
obliterated and scarcely perceptible, or wholly absent; sides deeply margined; apex 
obliquely truneate, its exterior angles rounded; the margin clear reddish brown. Abdo-. 
men very finely punctate; the margins of the segments semitransparent and ferruginous. 
Legs light or dark piceous. 
Found throughout Europe, under the bark of trees, but not common in Britain. 
Count de Motschulsky describes an East Indian species (Etudes Ent. vii. 43 (1858)) 
under the name of Zenomorphus biguttatus, which he says is very closely allied to C. sex- 
pustulatus, differing from it only in having a larger and more quadrate thorax, the sides 
of which are not rounded and not narrowed behind, and in the elytra having a testaceous. 
spot in the middle. Judged of by these characters, his species can have little or no affinity 
with C. sexpustulatus, and more probably belongs to the subgenus Myothoraz, and, as 1 
have already suggested, may be a variety of C. vittiger, but the description is insufficient 
to allow me to deal with it. The name biguttatus also is preoccupied. 
81. CARPOPHILUS DEPLANATUS. 
Brachypeplus deplanatus, Bohem. Ins. Caffr. i. 562 (1848). 
Oblongus, depressus, niger vel nigro-piceus, subopacus ; nigro pubescens, thoracis elytro- 
rumque basi cinereo pubescens; labro, mandibulis, antennis basi pedibusque rufo- 
piceis; capite prothoraceque subtiliter crebre punctulatis; elytris longitudinaliter 
aciculatis. Long. 1-14 lin., lat. 4 lin. 
Habitat in Africa australi apud flumina Limpopo. 
Small, oblong, depressed, black or nigro-piceous, subopaque, nigro-pubescent, with the 
base of the thorax and elytra cinereo-pubescent. Head shorter than broad, above slightly 
convex, black, opaque, faintly closely punctulate, almost glabrous. Labrum, mandibles, 
and palpi piceous. Eyes rounded, moderately convex, black. Antennz rather short, 
rufo-piceous, sparingly pubescent; club rounded, nigro-fuscous. Thorax a half shorter 
than broad, above almost flat, faintly and closely punctulated, clothed (except at 
the base) with long black pubescence which lies directed forwards; the pubescence of the 
base is einereous ; lightly rounded, emarginate in front, with the anterior angles slightly 
projecting, obtuse; the sides slenderly reflexed, narrowly edged with ferruginous, some- 
what widened immediately behind the apex, thence backwards almost straight; base 
١ truncate, posterior angles obtuse. Scutellum short, broad, with the apex slightly 
rounded, faintly and thiekly punetulate. Elytra a half longer than the thorax and not 
broader than its base, almost glabrous, faintly, closely, and irregularly acicularly punctate, 
the punctuation longitudinal, clothed (except at the base, which has cinereous pubes- 
cence) with long black pubescence lying directed backwards; truncate in front, the sides 
