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is also sometimes piceous. Abdomen with the penultimate segment long. Tarsi very 
slightly dilated. 
From Melbourne in Victoria. 
92. CARPOPHILUS INCONSPICUUS. 
Minutus, oblongo-ovatus, subdepressus, levissime sparsim punctatus et pubescens, supra 
subnitidus, subtus nitidior, flavo-testaceus, elytris luteis, apice et basi versus scu- 
tellum saturatioribus. Long. 3—# lin., lat. 1 lin. 
Habitat in insula Batchiana. 
Minute, oblong-ovate, subdepressed, very finely and sparsely punctate and very finely 
pubescent, somewhat shining above, more so below, flavo-testaceous, with the elytra 
luteous, the apex and base about the scutellum and the scutellum itself a little darker. 
Head with a slight depression on each side behind the epistome; antennz rather long, 
testaceous, with the club dusky. Thorax transverse, depressed, disk flat, a little broader 
in front than behind, sides gently rounded, apex not emarginate, base truncate, anterior 
angles somewhat obtuse, posterior angles very obtuse and almost rounded. Scutellum 
large, triangular, smooth, piceo-testaceous. Elytra a little longer than the thorax, wider 
at the base than the base of the thorax, sides subparallel, widest behind the middle, 
margined and canaliculate; disk depressed, sloping a little towards the suture; sparsely 
and finely punctate and sparingly finely pubescent; apex of each elytron obliquely 
truncate, exterior apical angles rounded, sutural angles obtuse; the scutellar region and 
the outer margin and apex rather darker than the rest of the piceo-testaceous surface. 
Abdomen still more finely punctate and pubescent than the elytra. Tarsi not very 
testaceous. | 
From the island of Batchian. Collected by Mr. Wallace. 
Species mihi invisa. 
I have not seen this species, and the description is scarcely sufficient to indicate its 
proper place; I have therefore merely added it as an appendix to the whole genus. 
98. CARPOPHILUS APICALIS. 
Leconte, Coleopt. Kansas and E. Mexico, (Smithson. Contrib.) 6 (1859). 
** Oblongus, piceo-niger, minus subtiliter punctatus et flavo pubescens; elytris rufis, circa 
scutellum et ad apicem extrorsum oblique infuscatis ; pedibus antennisque testaceis. 
Long. 14 lin. 
“ Habitat in Georgia apud flumina Platte in America boreali. 
» Oblong, piceous black, rather faintly punctate, and with a yellow pubescence. Thorax 
moderately convex, not a half shorter than its breadth, the sides rounded. Elytra a 
half longer than the thorax, rufous, oblique, infuscated about the scutellum and ex- 
teriorly outwards to the apex. Legs and antennz testaceous. 
* From Platte River in Georgia in North America.” 
1 have not seen this species, and have merely reproduced Dr. Leconte’s description. 
