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132. LgemopMoeus ferrugineus. 

 L. pallido-ferrugineus nitidus piibescens, prothorace elongato punctate, postice attenuate, angulis 

 anticis obtusis, posticis exstantibus, elytris striatis vix pallidioribus, pedibus testaceis. 

 Mas mihi in Madera non obvius (focminam tantum habeo) ; sed differt solum antennis paulo lon- 

 gioi'ibus (teste Lcemophlcei Monographid, in Sturm, Deutsch. Fna, xxi. tab. 383. fig. B). 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1. 



Cuciijus ferrugineits, Creutzer, in lift. 



testaceus, Payk. {nee Fab. 1792) Fna Suec. ii. 168 (1798). 



ferrugineits, Stepb. Bl. Brit. Ent. iv. 232 (1831). 



Lcemopliloeus ferrugineus, Ericli. JSTat. der Ins. Deutsch. iii. 322 (1818). 

 ■ , Sturm, Bewtsch. Fna, xxi. 53. tab. 383. fig. B (1851). 



Habitat in iisdem locis ac praecedens, semel tantum (in urbe Funchalensi) captus. 



I». a little longer, more parallel and shining than the L. pusillus, depressed, pale ferruginous, and 

 clothed with a silken pubescence. Head and prothorax rather more finely punctui'ed than (and 

 perhaps not quite so much depressed as in) the last species : forehead as in that insect, but with- 

 out the slightest indication, apparently, of a central line. Pruthurax rather long, and narrowed 

 behind ; the posterior angles prominent, and the anterior ones obtuse. Elytra a little paler 

 than the head and protjiorax, rather longer than in the last species, very pubescent ; entire at 

 their apex ; and distinctly striated. Legs testaceous. 



Somewhat intermediate between the L. pusillus and the L. clavicollis, — from 

 the former of which however it may be known by its rather longer, more parallel 

 and shining body, and by the totally different construction of its prothorax ; AvhUst 

 the more distinctly prominent hinder angles of the last, which is of a more de- 

 pressed and less posteriorly-narrowed form, in conjunction with the comparatively 

 broader outline of the entire insect, will serve to separate it from the latter*. In 

 its habits and general contour, however, it is clearly more related to the first of 

 those species (with which it appears to be found in company) than to the second, 

 it being liable, in the same manner, to importation, amongst grain, — under which 

 circumstances it occasionally makes its appearance, in Europe, in considerable 

 abundance. In Madeira I have hitherto captured but a single specimen; but, 

 since that one was taken in Funchal, it is probable that it wotild be detected in 

 sufficient numbers were the granaries and storehouses of the city to be properly 

 investigated. 



133. Laemophloeus clavicollis, WoU. 



Ij. angustus pallido-ferrugineus subnitidus pubescens, capite prothoraceque subconvexis, illo postice 



* In size and outward aspect the L. ferrugineus approaches the L. duplicalus of Waltl; but it has not 

 the slightest indication of the double protlioracic line which constitutes one of the principal distiuctiye 

 featiu-es of that insect ; whilst from the L. vermiculatus it may be recognized by its broader and more 

 pubescent siu-face, by the different character of the pimctuation of its forehead, and by the prominent 

 hinder angles of its prothorax, 



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