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culato, ad apicera dense bifasciculato-setoso ; scutello distincto ; elytris punetato-striatis, ad 

 latera subrotundatis, carinis interruptis nodulisque majoribus valde setosis nigrescentibus (praj- 

 sertim antice et post medium) instructis, plaga lunulato-hastata communi postmedia (antice et 

 postice nigro-terminata) distincta, macula subscutellari suffusa, et fascia antemedia obliqua 

 obscurissima fracta nivea ornatis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 2i-2|. 



Habitat in locis editioribus Maderse sylvaticse, ad Cruzinhas et per regionem Fanalensem aestate media 

 A.D. 1850 captus. 



A. oblong-ovate, densely variegated with dark-browu scales. Rostrum as in the other species. Pro- 

 thorax with a sliallow dorsal channel, and with two very setose tubercles across the central por- 

 tion (the two lateral ones being smaller and less apparent) ; produced, and densely setose, at the 

 apex, where, as in the pre\'ious species, the setse arrange themselves into two distinct fascicles. 

 Scutellum about the same size as in the A. terminalis. Elytra punctate-striated; and with the 

 sides not much rounded or projecting, although rather uneven ; with several large, setose, and 

 somewhat darker interrupted ridges and nodules, those towards the base and behind the middle 

 (especially the latter) being greatly developed ; with a transverse, sublunulate, or sublunulate- 

 hastate, abbreviated, postmedial patch, common to both (and terminated before and behind by a 

 darker portion of the surface), distinctly, — and with very faint indications towards the outer disk 

 of each of an oblique, broken, antemedial fascia indistinctly, pale-white : also with a suffused 

 blotch about the scutellum of a more or less obscurely paler hue. Antenna and le^s as in the 

 other species. 



The largely-developed and somewliat darkly setose nodiiles of tlie present species, 

 added to its beautifully variegated siu-face (which has not only a sublimate post- 

 medial patch, but obscm'e indications likewise of a broken oblique antemedial 

 fascia, of a more or less ptu*e white ; and a suffused cloud about the region of the 

 scutellum of a pale, though usually brownish, hue), wUl serve to separate it, prima 

 facie, from its congeners. It is apparently very rare, and, Uke the A. T'au, con- 

 fined to the wooded regions of a lofty elevation. I captm-ed it sparingly both at 

 the Cruziohas and the Fanal, during my encampment in those remote regions, in 

 July of 1850. 



260. AcaUes dispar, Wall. 



A. oblongo-ovatus, squamis nigro-bruuneis variegatus ; prothorace transversim setoso-subtuberculato, 

 ad apicem sub-bifasciculato-setoso J scutello sat distincto; elytris profunde punetato-striatis, ad 

 latera subrotundatis, carinis interruptis noduUsque minoribus subsetosis (prssertim post medium) 

 instructis, plaga sublunulata communi postmedia (antice et postice nigro-terminata) plus minusve 

 distincta, macula subscutellari (interdum obsoleta), et fasciculo elongato communi dorsali nigro 

 ornatis. 



Long. corp. lin. lf-2j. 



Habitat sub lapidibus truncisque arborum prolapsis, per partem Maderse sylvaticam, restate sat vulgaris. 



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