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intermediis paulo longiorem acutiorem) valde inflexum ])rocluctis ; anticis in ntroque sexu, sed 

 priesertim in masculo (VII. 1 b), apice incm-vis, necnon in hoc sexu subtus apicem versus leviter 

 excavato-concavis atque ad apicem ipsum vix subgalciformibus ; intermediis in maribus fere, in 

 foeminis omnino rectis; posticis in utroque sexu (VII. \c,\ e*) rectis, in foemineo (VII. 1 c*) 

 simplicibus, in masculo (VII. 1 c) compressis apicem versus valde sed facilius dilatatis et latera- 

 liter introrsum exsecatis, ad apicem internum latissime arcuato-truncatis (calcaneum obtusum 

 longe pone apicem ipsum vix exstantem efficientibus) ; necnon ad externum in angulum sub- 

 rectum valde setulosum explanatis : tarsis pilosissimis. 



Of Laparocerus but two representatives seem to have been hitherto described. 

 Both of these, the L. morio and the L.piceus, are stated to be natives of Portugal, 

 and have been until quite recently of the greatest rarity in the cabiaets of entomo- 

 logists. I have never been able either to procui-e or to see a truly Portuguese 

 specimen of either ; and whilst there seems no reason, geographically, to doubt 

 that they are really indigenous to that country, nor any cause for suspicion that 

 an error has arisen as to their correct extraction, it is just worthy of remark, that 

 Faldermann, on whose authority they appear to have been admitted into the 

 Eui'opean fauna, either collected in, or received iasects from, Madeira, where the 

 first of the above species literally abounds. Although the L. morio is the only 

 member of the genus which I have as yet been able to detect in these islands, 

 yet it is an insect so excessively abundant throughout the whole of them, — existing 

 on every rock, and rangiag from the sea-shore to the extreme summits of the 

 peaks, — and contains, as lately stated, all the elements of the peculiar tj^e of 

 form which is more or less developed in the greater portion of the larger Madeiran 

 Ci/clomides, that Laparocerus may be said to play a very important j^art amongst 

 the Curcullonidce of the Madeiran group. The main characteristics which these 

 immediate genera possess in common have been already pointed out ; and we need 

 merely therefore add, that whilst in its greatly thickened male legs, in its exceed- 

 ingly pilose tibise, and in the length of its antennse, Laparocerus agrees with 

 Cijplioscelis and Atlantis proper, and whUst in its almost straightened, slender, 

 and suddenly clavated scape, and in its short and subacuminated rostrum it is 

 coincident with the former, it recedes from them both in its comparatively un- 

 pubescent surface, ia its convex and equally-rounded prothorax, and in the con- 

 struction of its tibiae, — which are more strongly setulose at theu' extremity, have 

 the apical spine of the four anterior ones more powerful, and not merely confined 

 to (although most perceptible in) those of the males, have the internal crenula- 

 tions (which exist, as in Cijplioscelis, in the entii'e number) much more evident, 

 and, likewise, traceable in the female sex, and have then' hinder male pau* (VII. 1 c) 

 more gradually dilated from the base, with the inner angle largely emarginated, 

 or scooped out, so as to form an obtuse, though slightly prominent, heel at a con- 

 siderable distance behind the apex. The outer angle moreover is less acute than 

 in either of those genera, being almost a right angle, — though appearing to project 

 further than it really docs on account of the dense and robust setse with which it 



