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recording in his Monograph C. brachypterus, Say, as a different species from و‎ 
Erichson had taken it on trust. He gives no description of brachypterus, merely referring 
to Say’s paper, but describes the same species as new under the name of C. humilis. 
From North America. 
83. CARPOPHILUS XANTHOPTERUS (Mus. Berl.). 
Elongatus, angustus, oblongus, parallelus, subdepressus, subopacus, punctatus, parce 
pubescens, castaneus vel nigro-fuscus, capite dilutiore, elytris testaceo-castaneis. 
Long. 1$ lin., lat. å lin. 
Patria ignota. 
Narrow, elongate, oblong, parallel, subdepressed, subopaque, punctate, sparingly 
pubescent, chestnut or nigro-fuscous, the head paler, the elytra testaceous chestnut- 
coloured. Head rather lightly punctate, impressed transversely in front. Thorax trans- 
verse, somewhat rounded on the sides, especially behind, thickly punctate, the disk sub- 
depressed, with a transverse impression behind the middle, and there more strongly. 
punctate ; the base as well as the sides margined, the posterior angles somewhat explanate 
and rounded, the anterior angles declinate and nearly right angles. Scutellum rounded 
at the apex, shining, impressed in the middle at the base. Elytra almost a half longer 
than the thorax, parallel, less thickly punctate, the sides declinate and margined, the 
disk unequally impressed, transversely impressed at the apex, which is somewhat 
obliquely truncate on each elytron, the exterior apical angles rounded. Abdomen above 
very faintly punctate. Below paler chestnut, almost testaceo-piceous. Legs of the same 
colour. | 
Country unknown. A single specimen was presented to me by Dr. Schaum, and is now 
placed in the British Museum. It stands in the Berlin Museum under the name which 
I have preserved. 
(Subgenus MICROXANTHUS (uıxpûc, small; £av6oc, yellow).) 
Corpus parvum, depressum, lineare, Color plus minusve testaceus. 
Body small, depressed, linear. Colour more or less testaceous. 
84. CARPOPHILUS TEMPESTIVUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 260 (1843). 
, Parvus, elongatus, angustulus, fere linearis, subdepressus, parce subtilissimeque pubes- 
cens, testaceus, subnitidus, elytris sutura apiceque nigro marginatis. Long. 1 lin., 
lat. + lin. ; 
Var. A. Elytris basi etiam nigricante. 
Var. B. (C. terminatus (Berl. Mus.).) Elytris apice solum nigro marginatis. 
. Habitat in Cuba et partibus vicinis Americæ. : 
Small, elongate, subdepressed, very shortly and thinly clothed with fine pubescence, 
somewhat shining, testaceous. Antenne testaceous; club black. Head sparingly and 
finely punctate, obsoletely foveolate on each side in front. Thorax of the breadth of the 
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