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898 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
A sutural rufous vitta and a spot near the outer margin on each elytron; sides 
of thorax and elytra each slightly convex. . . 5 à . maculatus. 
A sutural rufous vitta usually on each elytron; idis of iecit ace alti ssi i 
parallel. [N.B. This species is e to much variation in colour.] . . . vittiger. 
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Pubescence on thorax ELE toa LUE on m ا‎ bulis the EE sordidus. 
= Pubescence on thorax pointing from the sides to the middle . . . . . . . pubescens, 
Species mihi ignote. 
Wholly black , . immaculatus. 
Piceous black. irte nal, pois a ل تتح‎ 1 BRDA space pu de apex i 
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Genus STAUROGLOSSICUS (sTavpóc, a cross; yAwooude, appertaining to the tongue, —in 
| allusion to the form of the ligula). 
Abdomen segmentis dies primis equalibus, ezeteris brevioribus, sed haud brevibus. Maxille latissima, 
subquadratz. . Ligula alis horizontalibus, antice truncatis. |Ceetera ut in Carpophilo. 
Body flat and depressed. Mandibles broadly bidentate. The lobe of the maxille 
more than usually broad, and the membranous lobes of the ligula transverse and trun- 
cate in front. They are constructed on the same principle as in the rest of the Carpo- 
phili: but in the latter the lobes project obliquely forward on each side; here they are 
as it were pushed back into a straight line, giving the lobe something of the appearance 
of a hammer, or of the eyes of the dipterous genus Diopsis. Mentum deeply emarginate. 
Abdomen wedge-shaped, with the first, second, and third segments nearly equal and 
shorter than the remaining two, which are long and nearly equal in length; fimbrie 
scarcely apparent, the suture between the dorsal and ventral segments being on the 
sides. In other respects the same as Carpophilus. 
Position and Affinities —Carvoruiuvs. STAUROGLOSSICUS. ErpocoLASTUS. 
TRIMENUS. 
l. STAUROGLOSSICUS TERMINALIS (Mus. Berol). (Plate XXXIII. fig. 4*.) 
Elongatus, subcuneiformis, plano-depressus, punctatus, nitidus, glaber, rufo-testaceus, 
capite et elytrorum sutura apiceque nigricantibus. Long. 1} lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Victoria in Nova Hollandia. 
Elongate, subcuneiform, flat, depressed, punctate, shining, glabrous, rufo-testaceous, 
with the head, and the suture and apex of the elytra, black, or passing into black. Head 
very faintly punctate, lightly bi-impressed in front. Thorax transverse, broader than 
long, with the disk flat, distinctly punctate, with the sides declinate, lightly rounded, the 
* By one of those ME ai accumulations of ill luck which sometimes happen even with the best artists and the 
"a workmen, the figure of this species in the Plate quoted is neither well drawn nor rightly coloured. Tt is not 
flat enough, nor sufficiently wedge-shaped, nor wide enough in front ; and instead of being brown as coloured, - 
insect is e testaceous, with the apex of the elytra &c. black. 
