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is widely spread over these islands, where in all probability it is uni- 

 versal. Hitherto, however, I have observed it only in Lanzarote, 

 Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma ; though I have examined two 

 specimens which were taken by Dr. Crotch in Gomera. In Lanzarote 

 it is decidedly rare. In Grand Canary it abounds in certain districts : 

 thus, in the region of El Monte and at San Mateo I have taken it 

 in the greatest profusion, in gardens, by beating the foliage of the 

 common narrow-leaved Myrtle. In Teneriffe it appears to be scarce, 

 where however I have met with it sparingly immediately above the 

 Puerto Orotava, and elsewhere ; whilst in Palma it is rather more 

 common, — most of my specimens being from the upper part of the 

 Barranco above S'" Cruz. 



§ II. Elytra ad humeros oblique truncata : antennarum articulus 

 ultimus hreviusculus, paido truncatus. 



192. Cybocephalus laevis, n. sp. 



C, breviter ovalis, ater, nitidissimus, hand alutaceus ; prothorace 

 latiusculo, impunctato, concolore, ad angulos posticos rotundato ; 

 elytris (praesertim postice) sat distincte punctulatis ; antennis pe- 

 dibusque fusco-testaceis. — Long. corp. Im. vix |, 



* Habitat in Lanzarota, rarissimus. 



Amongst 83 specimens of Canarian Cybocepliali which I have 

 examined closely beneath the microscope, I find foxu- which differ 

 entirely from the rest, and I have consequently described them as 

 above. The diminutive size of these insects necessaiily renders their 

 distinctive characters microscopic ones ; but, in this instance at all 

 events, they are certainly not the less real because (of necessity) thus 

 difficult of observation. Apart from the structural featiu'es indicated 

 in my Sectional diagnosis (of more obliquely truncated shoidders and 

 the less abbreviated terminal joint of its club) which separate the 

 present species from the last one, the 0. IcBvis may be farther recog- 

 nized by its more intensely black hue and apparently quite conco- 

 lorous prothorax (which is more rounded off at the posterior angles), 

 by its rather longer antennae, and by its surface being more highly 

 polished, and totally free (when viewed under the microscope) from 

 the alutaceous sculpture which is never absent from its ally. Its 

 pronotum, too, is apparently quite impunctate, there being no indi- 

 cation whatever of the minute (but distant) punctules which are 

 always visible in that species. My four examples of the C. laevis 

 were all taken in Lanzarote, and, I believe (so far as I can recoUect), 

 on the sandy sea-shore near Arrecife. 



