oic سد‎ nia 5 
388 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
not widened, the apex truncate; shoulders not prominent, almost right-angled. Body 
below black, slightly shining, rather closely punctulated, slenderly cinereo-pubescent. 
Legs rufo-piceous, obsoletely punctulate. 
This has been erroneously described as a Brachypeplus by Professor Boheman. He 
has had the kindness to send me the type, and I am enabled to say that it is undoubtedly 
a Carpophilus of the narrow section, and coming near C. sexpustulatus. It may be 
readily distinguished from any similar species by the posterior angles of the thorax, which 
are cut off, so that they have two posterior angles on each side as it were. The long 
black pubescence, directed forwards on the thorax and backwards on the elytra, is 
another character of ready application. 
From the banks of the river Limpopo in South-east Africa. 
82. CARPOPHILUS BRACHYPTERUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 263 (1843). 
Nitidula brachyptera, Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. v. 183. 10 (1827). 
Carpophilus carbonatus, Leconte, Coleopt. of Kansas and East. Mexico (Smithsonian Contrib.), 6 (1859). 
Ips atrata (Dej. Cat. 134 (1837)). 
Carpophilus humilis, Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 262 (1843). 
Oblongus, subdepressus, subnitidus, parcius pubescens et punctatus, textura molli, piceo- 
niger, antennis basi piceis; thorace elytris angustiore, lateribus et angulis rotundatis ; 
elytris subtiliter punctulatis, thorace duplo longioribus. Long. 14 lin., lat. + lin. 
Habitat in America boreali. y 
Allied to C. sexpustulatus; oblong, subdepressed, piceous black, sparingly punctate 
and pubescent, somewhat shining, texture soft. Head slightly raised on the vertex and 
in front. Antenns piceous at the base. Thorax narrower than the elytra, transversely 
subquadrate, more than a half shorter than broad, all the angles broadly rounded, the 
apex scarcely emarginate, the margin of the sides narrow. Scutellum triangular, some- 
what rounded at the apex, smooth, shining, and almost impunctate, there being merely 
two or three punctures on the disk. Elytra finely, not very closely punctate, twice as 
long as the thorax, sides distinctly margined and canaliculated, widest a little before the 
middle; apex obliquely truncate, exterior apical angles nearly right angleg Shoulders .ب‎ 
rather prominent. Legs piceous. P Nu 
The colour varies from piceous or purplish black to fare black. The length of the 
elytra seems greater in some specimens than in others, and the thorax seems to vary 
٠ slightly in its proportions. These variations, however, are merely apparent, not real.: 
The thorax, for instance, in some specimens seems widest ‘before the middle, in others 
widest behind it; but this depends upon the angle of inclination at which the thorax 
stands. In the same way, a careful measurement of the comparative length-of the thorax 
and elytra shows that the proportions are the same even in those specimens in which the 
elytra seem longest. : 
An examination of Dr. Leconte's type of C. carbonatus, which he kindly forwarded to 
me, has satisfied me that it is not different from Say's N. brachyptera, and I can find 
no difference between it and Erichson's C. humilis. I am inclined to think that in 
