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emargined anterior edge) of theii- foreheads, the present insect and the last are 

 coincident : but the small size and pale immaculate hue of the L. grannlatus 

 would tend, 2)i'imd facie, to associate it more with the members of the second 

 section than with the i. Donacioides. The above characters however will of 

 cou.rse at once distinguish it from any of the following species, — from which, 

 moreover, its deep fi-ontal stria and the subequaUy prominent angles of its 

 straightened prothorax will serve even farther to remove it. It is widely distri- 

 buted over the forest regions of Madeu-a, above the elevation of about 1500 feet. 

 I have captiu-ed it from beneath the bark of trees, during the winter, in the Boa 

 Ventm-a ; and, in the summer, at the Eibeu-o Prio and the Lombo dos Pecegueii-os, 

 — as also, though more sparingly, in the Chestnut- woods of Santa Anna. 



§ II. Antenna: breviores, iilus minusve moniliformes {apicem versus interdum leviter incrassates), articulo 

 ultimo fere vel omnino integro ; frons antice magis producta, ad apicem solum subrecto-truncata ; 

 elytra apice Integra. 



130. Lsemophlceus vermicvdatus, Wall. 



L. angustus pallido-ferrugineus subnitidus parce subtiliter pubescens, capite prothoraceque (prse- 

 sertim illo) subvenniculato-punctato, hoc postice attenuate, angulis anticis subobtusis, posticis 

 rotundatis, elytris striatis vis pallidioribus, pedibus testaceis. 

 Mas adhuc latet (exemplar umcum, sc. foemineum, tantum possideo) . 



Long. corp. lin. ^. 



Habitat Maderam borealem sylvaticam, — in castanetis SanctseAnnse sestate medi^ a.d. 1850 a meipso 

 repertus. 



Ii. small and narrow, depressed, parallel, pale ferruginous, slightly shining, and very sparingly 

 pubescent. Head and prothorax rather deeply, but somewhat irregularly punctured, — the 

 punctures (especially on the former) being lengthened, or, more strictly, with a tendency to 

 become confluent and to produce somewhat curved furrows, as though they had been scooped or 

 eaten out : forehead considerably produced anteriorly, and with the extreme edge straightly 

 truncated (as is more or less the case with all the species of this division) in front ; with a raised 

 marginal stria, but with scarcely any indications of a central line down the disk. Prothorax 

 long, rather more convex than that of the L.granulatus, and naiTOwed behind; with the anterior 

 angles obtuse and scarcely at all prominent, and the posterior ones rounded oiF. Elytra rather 

 long and parallel, a little paler than the head and prothorax ; entire at their apex ; and very 

 distinctly striated. Leys testaceous. 



The present minute species, of which I have seen hitherto but a single example, 

 may be kno^\Ti by its narrow and parallel outline, and by the singular punctxu'es 

 of its head and (somewhat posteriorly-narrowed) prothorax, — which (especially on 

 the former) have the appearance, when viewed beneath the microscope, of being 

 carved or eaten out, rather than round and isolated. My unique specunen was 

 captm-ed in the Chestnut-woods of Santa Anna, dui"ing the summer of 1850. 



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