218 [Marcb, 



punctulated ; the punctures much stronger than in C. melanocephala, 

 so that the three larger punctures of the third interstice are with 

 difficulty distinguished. 



Atlas : Jebel-Tezi ; alt. 10,000 feet. II. W. B. 



Genus MELYEOSOMA. 

 Wollaston, Ins. Mad., 253 (1851). 

 Melteosomjl Blackmoeei, sp. n. 



Jlf. lineari-elongatum, atrum, pilis Irevibus demissis grifseis vestitum ; capile 

 prothoracequedenseruguloso-subpunctatis,illomagno,suhtriangulari-qua(lrato,convexo, 

 hoc ad latera conspicue subrecurne marginato, antice in medio distincte canaliculato ; 

 coleopteris valde profunde ac densissime suhseriatim punetatis fpunetis viaximisj, 

 suturd eostisque trihiis utrinque fortiter elevatis ; antennis basin rerms tarsisque 

 (elongatis) patdo dilidioribiis. ' Long. corp. lin. 2^. 



Habitat, Morocco, in loco salino juxta oppidum Mogador a Doin. T. Blackmore 

 captum, cujus in honorem nomen triviale proposui. 



The large size of this Melyrosoma, as compared with the repre- 

 Beutatires of the group hitherto made known (all of which are peculiar, 

 apparently, to the Atlantic islands), in conjunction with its rather 

 parallel-elongate outline, its considerably developed head, the somewhat 

 recurved edges of its prothorax, and the very deep and coarse punctures 

 of its elytra (on each of which latter there are the three usual elevated 

 costse), will sufficiently distinguish it. A single example was found 

 by Mr. Trovey Blackmore " under a stone in the salt-marsh behind 

 the town of Mogador, in company with Salonomus salinicoJa ;'' but 

 that particular habitat was clearly only an accidental one, the members 

 of the genus being eminently flower-infesting in their modes of life. 



T. V. W. 



Genus GT]\INETEON. 

 Schonherr, Cure. Disp. Meth., 319 (1826). 



GTMXETROy LAKUGIXOSUM, Sp. 11. 



O. paraleUo-oblongnm, depresmtm, immactdatum, atrum, siibopacum, longe cinereo- 

 nigroque pilosum, antennis {capilulo obscuro excepto) tibiis tarsisque nifo-Jerrtigineis ; 

 capite prothoraceque transversa densissime rtigoso-punctatis, rostro ad apicem leviter 

 attenuato, ocicUs prominent ibus ; elytris (pggidiinn hand tegentibiisj depressis, ad 

 latera parallelis, argide angiisteque sitbcrenato-strialis, inferstitiis punctitlato-nigu- 

 losis i scapo lor^iusculo ; tibiis robiistis. 



Mas : femoribus subtus dente acido armalis. 



Fcem. : adhuc latet. Long. corp. lin. vix 2. 



Habitat, Morocco, in montibus "Atlas" captum. 



Judging from INl. Brisout dc Barue^ille's Monograph (Ann. Soc. 



