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might lead us to suspect), I have no means of ascertaining. 

 Mr. Park's example was captured crawling on the outside of a 

 house in Funchal ; and my own were taken partly in the garden 

 of the Quinta da Favilla (also near Funchal), and partly at 

 Camacha. In the Canaries the species is by no means uncom- 

 mon j and I have it from, I believe, five (out of the seven) islands 

 of the group. At first sight it very much resembles the C.fulva, 

 Mann. ; but the prothoracic fovea is not quite so deep, and the 

 elytra are a trine less ovate, with their pubescence shorter, and 

 with a more or less conspicuous black patch on the hinder disk 

 of each. Sometimes, however, this patch is entirely obsolete; 

 and occasionally, in highly coloured specimens, there is a very 

 obscure indication of an additional dark cloud (or transverse 

 dash) towards the base of each, adjoining the suture, a little 

 behind the scutellum. 



Genus Lathridius, Hbst. 

 Lathridius delectus, n. sp. 



L. elongatus, angustus, ferrugineus ; capite prothoraceque profunde 

 rugoso-punctatis, illo sat magno subquadrato, hoc subquadrato 

 basi leviter angustato ; elytris parallelis, profunde seriatim punc- 

 tatis (punctis magnis), sutura interstitiisque alternis fortiter elevatis. 



Long. corp. lin. } . 



L. elongate, narrow, nearly opake, and reddish ferruginous. 

 Head and prothorax deeply and roughly punctured ; the former 

 rather large and subquadrate, being a little narrowed anteriorly, 

 and about as wide behind as the front of the prothorax, which 

 is also subquadrate, and rather narrowed posteriorly. Elytra 

 with the sides parallel, closely and regularly seriate-punctate 

 (the punctures being extremely large), and with the suture and 

 alternate interstices greatly elevated, forming longitudinal costse. 

 Limbs concolorous. 



The discovery of the present little Lathridius (which differs 

 from all the European species which I have been able to examine) 

 is due to Mr. M. Park, who captured a single specimen (which 

 he has since presented to the Collection of the British Museum) 

 near Funchal. It is of about the size and general aspect of the 

 L. filiformis, Gyll., though its deep sculpture and greatly raised 

 elytra! costse will at once distinguish it from that insect. 



Fam. Cissidae. 



Genus Rhyzopertha, Steph. 



Rhyzopertha bifoveolata, n. sp. 



R. brcviter cylindrica, piceo-ferruginea, subopaca ; prothorace magno, 



