414 MR. A. MURRAY’S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
antice angustiore; scutello pues; elytris subquadratis, lateribus marginatis, apice 
rotundato. Long. 14 lin., lat. j-$ lin. 
Habitat in Madagascaria. 
Rather broad, shortly oblong, very faintly punctate, and clothed with a short pubes- 
cence ; testaceous, with the disk of the thorax, the scutellar region, and sides and apex of 
the elytra pale piceous. Mandibles broad, projecting, canaliculate, acute; the head raised 
at the base of the antenns. Antennze twice the length of the body in the males. Thorax 
rather convex, transverse, broader than long, narrowed in front, with the sides rounded, 
the base truncate and sinuate, the anterior angles obtuse, and the posterior obtusely 
rectangular. Scutellum moderate, piceous. Elytra subquadrate, the sides margined, 
the apex rounded. The pygidium alone appears exposed. 
I have only seen specimens of the male. 
From Madagascar. In the Berlin Museum and in the collections of the Marquis de 
la Ferté and of M. Deyrolle. 
6. Mysrrops apustus (Motsch.). 
Oblongus, nitidus, glaber, leviter punctatus, nigro-piceus, elytrorum disco rufo-piceo, 
mandibulis testaceis, valde explanatis ; antennis longitudine dimidii corporis, fuscis, 
basi testaceis; thorace subconvexo, transverso; elytris apice rotundatim trance 
sutura utrinque linea subimpressa; subtus et pedibus piceis. 
Fem. Antennis brevioribus, thorace vix longioribus. ‘Long. 1 lin., lat. } lin. 
Habitat in Columbia. | | 
Very like a Brachypterus. Smooth, glabrous, shining, oblong, faintly punctate, piceous 
black, with the disk of the elytra rufo-piceous. Head very much hollowed out in front 
in the middle and on each side at the base of the antenne.  Epistome quadran- 
gular and impunctate, but impressed on each side. Mandibles testaceous and much 
flattened. Antenne about half the length of the body, with the articles gradually slightly 
increasing in size from the third to the termination ; the first article stout; the second, 
third, fourth, fifth, and sixth long and equal; the seventh and eighth shorter; the ninth, 
tenth, and eleventh a little thickened, forming a long and slender club; the eleventh 
minute; the last six articles (sixth to eleventh) fuscous, the remainder testaceous. In 
the female the antennz are shorter, being scarcely longer than the thorax. Thorax 
transverse, subeonvex, shorter than long, rather narrower in front than behind, expanded 
backwards near the posterior angles, embracing the shoulders of the elytra as it were; 
anterior angles obtuse; the sides angled behind the middle. Scutellum rather large- 
Elytra oblong, rufo-piceous, each with the disk surrounded by blackish piceous; the 
sides somewhat rounded and inflexed ; a faint line impressed on each side of the suture, 
which is blackish piceous; the apex truncate and rounded. The pygidium and penul- 
timate segment of the abdomen are subpubescent, the latter scarcely visible from above; 
the abdomen being bent in. The underside and the legs piceous. 
. From Columbia. In the British Museum. 
