350 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



exposed mountain-slopes ; those which inhal)it the sylvan districts (represented hy 

 some of the Atlantides, hoth typical and aberrant) being an exception to the 

 general rule. They appear to be all more or less nocturnal insects, — scarcely ever 

 wandering by day, though both active and voracious at night. 



Genus 121. CYPHOSCELIS, WoU. (Tab. VII. fig. 2.) 



Corpus miausculum, ovato-ellipticum, depressum, dense subtiliter pubescens : rostro brevi, supra 

 piano, ad apicern attenuato et profunde triangulariter cmarginato ; scrobe oblonga lata, versus 

 medium rostri ascciidente ; oculis oblongis demissis : prothorace depresso, basi subsinuato-, apice 

 recto-triincato, ad latera rotundato (antice angustiore), elytris subarcte applicato : scutello sat 

 magno, triangular! : elytris subconnatis ovatis apice attenuatis, ad basin sinuato-truncatis et illic 

 prothorace pavdo latiore, ad humeros porreetis : alis obsoletis. Antenna (VII. 2 a) fere ut in 

 Laparocero, gracillimse, scape subrecto subito elavato. Pedes in maribus (VII. 2) crassi, in foeminis 

 graciliores sed \ix breviores : tibiis omnibus pilosis et apice setuloso-ciliatis, intus in maribus 

 (VII. 2 i, 2 c) distincte crenulatis, in foeminis (VII. 2 6*, 2 e*) nee ci-enulatis nee ad apicern 

 uncinatis ; anteriuribus in maribus subtus (prresertim antieis) torto-concavis atque apicern versus 

 .subgaleiformibus, ad apicem internum in uncum parvum (in antieis obtusum minus distinctum, 

 in intermediis eonspieuorem acutiorem) inflexum prodiictis; antieis in maribus (VII. 2 b), prae- 

 sertim ad apicem, incurvis et intus basin versus in gibbam rotundatam cavam ampliatis, in foeminis 

 (VII. 2 6*) ad apicem solum (et baud distincte) incurvis et intus simplicibus; intermediis in 

 maribus ad apicem solum incurvis et intus basin versus vix cavo-ampliatis, in foeminis rectis et 

 intus simplicibus ; posticis in utroque sexu (VII. 2 c, 2 c*) rectis, in foemineo (VII. 2 c*) simpli- 

 cibus, in maseulo (VII. 2 c) conipressis robustis latis, intus in gibbam mediam maximam rotun- 

 datam compressam (suram simulantem) subito ampliatis, apice valde dilatatis et lateraliter 

 Mitrorsum exsecatis, ad apicem internum nee cmarginatis, nee truncatis, ncc angulatis, sed etiam 

 in calcaneum rotundatum leviter ampliatis; necnon ad externum in angulum acutum valde 

 exstantem explanatis : tarsis pilosis. 



A Kv<f)b'i gibba, et <rKeX.U tibia. 



The exceedingly curious insect to contain which the present genus is erected 

 presents so many peculiarities of its own, that it is scarcely possible to confound it 

 Avith any of the other Madeu-an Cyclomides. The singular type of structure in fact 

 of which Laparocerus is the centre may be said to be more fully carried out in 

 CuphosceVis than in any of the neighbouring groups ; and I believe therefore that 

 it is correctly placed at the commencement of them. In its anteriorly-attenuated 

 rostrum, and in the details of its antenna?, it coincides with Laparocerus, — the 

 latter being especially remarkable, in both of these genera, for then- excessive 

 slenderness and the suddenly clavated apex of thcu- almost straightened scape. 

 It recedes however from that genus in particular in the shape of its prothorax, in 

 its densely pubescent surface, and in the construction of its tibitr, — which are 

 perfectly simple in the females (being neither crenidated nor spined), and are not 

 emarginatcd at the inner angle in the posterior pair of the opposite sex : whilst 

 from the whole of these umiiediate forms its subelliptical outline and depressed 



