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terstitiis latiusculis et punctulis minutissimis distantibus longitudi- 



naliter obsitis. 

 Long. corp. lin. 1| vix If. 

 Habitat Maderam australem ; in horto quodara Funchalensi inter 



lignum antiquum copiose legit Dom. Moniz, cujus in honorem 



speciem stabilivi. 



P. piceous or rufo-piceous, shining, and free from pubescence. 

 Rostrum rather long, deeply punctured, and a little expanded 

 about the insertion of the antennae. Prothorax ovate, and 

 straightly truncated behind, the broadest part being almost at 

 the extreme base; deeply and regularly punctured. Elytra 

 elliptical, being much rounded off at the shoulders, and with 

 their broadest part about the middle ; very lightly, but regularly, 

 striate-punctate (the punctures being small); the interstices 

 broad, and with a series of excessively minute and distant punc- 

 tules down each. Limbs, except the antennal club, scarcely paler 

 than the rest of the surface. 



Detected, in abundance, by S r . Moniz, during the spring of 

 1858, in old boards lying on the damp earth, in his garden at 

 Funchal. It was, however, first captured by myself in the 

 Canary Islands, where I took a single specimen in a house at 

 Orotava, in the north of Teneriffe, during March of the previous 

 year. 



II. Antenna breviuscula robustce, ante medium rostri inserta, 

 articulis funiculi transversis inter se arete compressis, capitulo 

 minus abrupto oblongiore. Rostrum ad antennarum insertionem 

 vix latins. 



Pentar "thrum Bewickianum, n. sp. 



P. rufo-piceum, nitidum ; prothorace sat profunde et paulo crebrius 

 punctato ; elytris subparallelo-ellipticis, rugulosis, sat profunde et 

 dense substriato-punctatis (punctis majoribus). 



Long. corp. lin. 1-vix. If. 



Habitat Maderam australem ; in ligno antique ad " Praia Formosa" 

 detexit Dom. Bewicke insectorum Maderensium scrutator inde- 

 fessus, qui pauca specimina segre conservata nuper mini benigne 

 communicavit. 



P. like the last species, but perhaps a shade more rufescent, 

 and with its rostrum a trifle broader and shorter, and less evi- 

 dently widened at the insertion of the antennaB (which are shorter 

 and comparatively thicker, with the joints of their funiculus 

 more compressed inter se, and their club less abrupt than in that 

 insect ; and which moreover do not arise quite so near to the 

 apex). Prothorax as in the P. Monizianum, but a trifle less 

 convex on its hinder disk, and just perceptibly less deeply and 

 more closely punctured. Elytra a little more parallel (or less 



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