from the Cape de Verde Islands. 505 



Monocrepidius ? Grayii. 



M. linearis, fusco-niger, pilis brevibus cinereis depressis ubique dense 

 vestitus ; prothorace convexo, creberrime subtilissimeque punctu- 

 lato punctulisque majoribus undique crebre obsito ; elytris sub- 

 punctato-striatis, interstitiis vix punctulatis ; antennis, palpis (Ion- 

 giusculis) pedibnsque laete rufo-ferrugineis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 6. 



It was found beneath a stone on one of the highest points of 

 the island; and I have much pleasure in dedicating it to my 

 friend John Gray, Esq., to whose kindness I am shortly about 

 to be indebted for the opportunity of investigating, under the 

 best of auspices, the various portions of the Canarian Group. 



The representative of the Rhynchophora is a curious insect allied 

 to (though scarcely, I think, identical with) Brachytarsus, of 

 which there is a solitary specimen ; and it is worthy of remark 

 that it appears to coincide, even as regards the species, with one 

 taken by Mr. Clark at Blidah, in Algeria, during the previous 

 June of the same year. 



And, lastly, with respect to the Heteromera above referred to, 

 the eight species are as follows : 



1. A very beautiful, but variable, Phaleria, with a black dorsal 

 patch behind the middle (and common to both) of its elytra ; 

 in some examples of which the patch is so largely developed as 

 to cover the entire surface of the elytra, except the shoulders 

 and extreme lateral margin. I would thus characterize it : — 



Phaleria Clarkii, 



P. ovata, ferruginea ; capite plus minus infuscato ; prothorace trans- 

 verso-sub quadrate, basi utrinque foveola brevi longitudinaliter im- 

 presso ; coleopteris Isete testaeeis, macula magna discali sublunata 

 nigra vix pone medium ornatis. 



Var. (3. Pro thoracis disco elytrorumque regione scutellari ac 

 sutura (una cum macula discali) plus minus suffuse nigrescentibus. 

 Var. y. Capite, prothoracis disco, elytrisque (humeris et limbo 

 pallidiore exceptis) nigrescentibus. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 2|-3. 



It was discovered by Messrs. Gray and Clark (to the latter 

 of whom I have dedicated the species) sub stercore humano, on 

 the sea-beach ; having buried itself in considerable numbers, at 

 some distance below the excrement, — in the same manner as is 

 the case with the Phalei^ice (when under such circumstances) 

 generally. 



2. A small insect allied to Cerandria, Dej., but generically 

 distinct from it. 



3. The common Opatrum fuscum, Hbst, — so universal iji 

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