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undoubtedly new genus, — intermediate perhaps between Psammcecus and Dendro- 

 phagus ; since it partakes of the former in its general habits and aspect, in its 

 prominent upper lip, and in the construction of the inner lobe of its maxillae and 

 thh'd tarsal joint ; whilst in its mandil)les and maxUlary palpi, and in the number 

 of the articulations of its feet (in one sex at all events, if not indeed in both) it ap- 

 proaches the latter. In the shape of its nientum and labial j)alpi, on the other 

 hand, it agrees with neither, — although the first more nearly resembles that of 

 Dendrophagus than of PsammoecKs, whilst the second assimilate those of Psani- 

 moeciis rather than of Dendrophagus. 



127. Cryptamorpha Musse, Woll. (Tab. IV. fig. l.) 



C. elongata depressa pubescens rufo-testacea, elytris profunde punctato-striatis testaceis macula sub- 

 scutellari fasciaque postmedia, necuon linea plus minusve coujungenti vel sufTusa (in singido 

 prope suturam sita), nigre.scentibus, antennis pedibusque pallido-testaceis, illaruni articulis sub- 

 apicalibus infuseatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. If. 



Habitat in Madera australi, circa urbem Funcbalensem, rarissime : in horto EcclesiEe Anglicanse (qua; 

 in Bcco das Arliubas sita est), sub libra Musa sapientitm, Linn., Augusto ineunte a.d. 1850 pri- 

 mus inveni ; et tempore vernali a.d. 1851 in floribus Calocasiee cl. Dom. Heer detexit. 



C. elongated, depressed, very pubescent, and rufo-testaceous. Head rather large and prominent, 

 finely punctulated, and with a deep and narrow longitudinal impression, or groove, on either side 

 between the eyes, which however terminates abruptly on the hinder portion of the forehead. 

 Prothorax elongated and subcylindrical, a little narrowed behind, and with the hinder disk a 

 good deal flattened ; rather more deeply punctured than the head (the spaces between the punc- 

 ttu'es appearing beneath a high magnifying power to be very delicately roughened, or somewhat 

 granulose) ; with the lateral edges minutely crenulated, — especially about the anterior angles, 

 which are a little downwardly-produced. Elytra deeply punctate-striated ; testaceous, with a 

 somewhat triangular patch in front of the scutellum, and a transverse postmedial abbreviated 

 zigzag fascia, common to both, — as also a narrow connecting line close alongside the suture of 

 each (but which is often suffused, or even evanescent, especially in front), — black. Antenna and 

 legs pale testaceous : the former with their subapical joints more or less infuscated, — the terminal 

 one being always pale. 



A most elegant insect, and apjoarently extremely scarce ; being confined, so far 

 as I am aware, to hot sheltered spots in and immediately around Funchal. It was 

 first discovered by myself, early in August 1850, in the garden of the English 

 Church in the Beco das Aranhas, beneath the outer fibre of the stems of the 

 Banana {Ilusa sapientmu,, Linn.), — where it would appear more especially to reside, 

 subsisting (much in the same manner as the Psammcecus bipimctatus does on the 

 Carex acuta of central and northern Europe) on the sap with which that gigantic 

 Monocotyledon abounds ; — a mode of life for which its unarmed and densely 



