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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
coxas intermedias paullo distantes angulatiin producto-carinatum (angulus 
carinae anterior), apice pro receptione primi segmenti abdominis profundis- 
sime emarginatum. Lamina pectorales minusculae, segmento prirno abdo¬ 
minis multo brevioribus. Abdomen crassitudine latitudineque versus 
apicem diminuendum ; segmentis quatuor anterioribus successive breviori¬ 
bus, lmo magno, 2do subduplolongiore; basi utrinque infra pedes profunde 
emarginato, lateribus medioque prsesertim valde productis ; ultimo brevis- 
simo, versus latera infra praecedente tecto. 
Pedes quatuor, anteriores mediocres (antici paullo breviores tenuiores- 
que): femoribus parum clavatis: tibiis versus apicem paullo ampliatis, 
brevioribus. Posteriores magni: femoribus infra deplanatis, supra paullo 
convexis, utrinque medio valde rotundo-ampliatis, subtus ante apicem semi- 
circulariter crenulatis: tibiis linearibus, angustis, valde incurvis, apice ob¬ 
lique truncatis, truncatura intus acutissime producta, subunciformi: tarsis 
omnibus latis, subspongiosis ; articulo lmo subconico, in quatuor anticis lati- 
tudine apicali subdimidio,—in posticis duplo longiore; 2do subtriangulari, 
latitudine apicali certe breviore ; 3tio praecedenti adfixo, latiore, profundis- 
sime usque ad basin emarginato-diviso; ultimo ad basin emarginaturae 
praecedentis articulato, angusto, versus apicem paullo ampliato, biunguicu - 
lato: unguiculis valde divergentibus, basi intus connexis, subquadrangu- 
laribus, angulo acuto; apice tenuibus, incurvis. 
Etym.: Ab Xapi/ov, nux ; Try/na, damnum. 
Typus: Carpopemon hieroglyphicus, Jekel, ex India. 
Obs. —This genus, of which I only know one species, participates, in 
its characters, with Pachymerus and Caryoborus. Its general elongate 
form and the structure of the posterior thighs and tibiae place it near the 
latter, but its moderate sized and finely (proportionally) reticulated eyes 
and its short antennae, having the 5—10 joints much wider than long, se¬ 
parate it from them ; it also differs in having the elytra flattened and the 
thorax nearly rhombical, or obliquely and subangularly produced from the 
posterior angles to the middle of the base, and obliquely narrowed towards 
the apex; the elytra are also consequently deeply emarginate. All these 
characters, of the eyes, antennae, thorax and elytra, approach towards Pa- 
chymerus, but the elongation of the elytra, the tibiae long, linear, incurvate, 
having at the inner side of the apex no true spine, and also the form of 
the thighs as in Caryoborus , distinguish it from them, as well as from the 
Bruchi , properly so called. The scutellum is also proportionally much 
smaller than in any other group of the Bruchidce. 
