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posterior angles obtusely rounded, the anterior inflexed and nearly right angles. Scu- 
tellum triangular, depressed, and with punctures in the middle. Elytra flat, longer than 
the thorax, scarcely broader, punctate, impressed unequally, a little narrower behind than 
in front, with the shoulders rather prominent, the sides shortly declinate, margined, the 
apex obliquely truncate, the exterior apical angles rounded. Abdomen finely punctate. 
From Port Phillip in New Holland. In the Berlin and British Museums. 
2. STAUROGLOSSICUS LEPIDUS. 
Parum elongatus, subcuneiformis, postice attenuatus, depressus, nitidus, glaber, levis- 
sime punctatus, læte testaceus. Long. 1j lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in insula Batchiana. 
Somewhat elongate, narrowed behind so as to be somewhat cuneiform, depressed, flat 
above, shining, glabrous, very finely and sparsely punctate, clear testaceous. Head 
smooth and flat, without impressions. Antennz dusky towards the apex. Parts of the 
mouth as in SS. terminalis, but the lobes of the ligula show more clearly the relationship 
to the Carpophili, being a very little less hammer-shaped and slightly obliquely sloped 
inwards behind. "Thorax broader than long, broadest a little before the middle; sides 
gradually rounded, about equally broad at the anterior and posterior angles; apex emar- 
ginate, sides of the emargination oblique, middle straight, anterior angles declinate, 
nearly right angles, posterior angles obtuse, base truncate straight; disk flat from the 
apex to the base, the sides slightly declinate; very finely punctate. Scutellum large, 
triangular, faintly punctate at the base, impunctate at the apex. Elytra nearly a half 
longer than the thorax, flat; shoulders square, rather prominent and sharp; sides sub- 
parallel, gently rounded, margined, and slightly canaliculated; disk sloping towards the 
suture; apex of each elytron obliquely truncate; paler than the thorax, less shining, the 
chitinous structure of the surface discernible with an ordinary lens. Abdomen with the 
segments finely punctate. Underside finely punctate. Legs moderate; tarsi moderately 
dilated. 
This species is interesting from its locality and from its 5507 so completely the 
minute characters of the Australian species. 
Collected by Mr. Wallace in the island of Batchian, under bark and chips of freshly 
cut trees, and in the island of Morty, north of Gilolo. 
Genus ErpocoLAsTUS (cidoc, likeness; and Colastus). | 
Corpus planum et depressum. Caput latum.  Epistoma minus porrectum. Maxille apice truncate. 
_ Abdomen segmentis omnibus (ultimo longiore excepto) equalibus. Cetera ut in Carpophilo. 
Body depressed and flat, and with much of the appearance of the very flat species of 
Colastus ( C. amputatus, &c.). Head broad, with the epistome very slightly produced. Eyes 
large, and occupying the whole side of the head from the antennz back to the thorax. 
Maxillary lobes broad, short, and truncate at the apex ; abdominal fimbriz not visible 
‘from above, except on the penultimate segment, where they are small and curved at its 
anterior angles. In other respects as in Carpophilus. . . 
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